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Hurricane Melissa’s 252-mph Gust Sets New Wind Record
November 21, 20253 min readHurricane Melissa’s 252-mph Gust Sets New Wind RecordHurricane Melissa raged as a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean last...
Hurricane Melissa made more intense and destructive by climate change, study...
The study also concludes that climate change increased the maximum wind speeds experienced during Hurricane Melissa by 7%. "Hurricane Melissa's catastrophic landfall in...
The Jamaican Families Torn Apart by Hurricane Melissa
new video loaded: The Jamaican Families Torn Apart by Hurricane MelissatranscriptBacktranscriptThe Jamaican Families Torn Apart by Hurricane MelissaDays after a powerful hurricane made...
Jamaica’s Hurricane Melissa clean-up challenge is ‘overwhelming’, Sean Paul says
Ian YoungsCulture reporterJamaican music superstar Sean Paul has said the scale of the effort required to help people in the country is "overwhelming"...
Why Hurricane Melissa Was One of the Most Powerful Atlantic Storms...
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re mainly going to focus on one major story...
Hurricane Melissa: Aerial view of 'ground zero' destruction
The BBC's Will Grant witnessed the devastation in the town of Black River, as he joined an aid helicopter flight over the island.
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Aid struggles to reach Jamaican towns devastated by hurricane
Brandon Drenonin Westmoreland, JamaicaBrandon Drenon / BBC News"Can't give up. Not gonna give up," he said.It is the same tone struck by Oreth...
Hurricane Melissa death toll rises to 28 in Jamaica
The number of people killed in Jamaica as a result of Hurricane Melissa has risen to 28, the Caribbean nation's prime minister has...
UK aid for Hurricane Melissa reaches Jamaica as Britons to be...
Cachella Smith and Will Grant,Reporting from KingstonEPA/ShutterstockThe country's health minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, on Saturday described "significant damage" across a number of hospitals...
Desperation in Black River, Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa
Brandon Drenonin Black River, Jamaica "The entire town of Black River is devastated," the town's mayor Richard Solomon has said. He noted to...
