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Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Heads For Jamaica with catastrophic and life-threatening flooding - FIVE MINUTE NEWS
Hurricane Melissa’s explosive growth into a Category 5 storm highlights how climate change is intensifying tropical cyclones around the world. Scientists say the record-warm Caribbean waters—supercharged by rising global temperatures—acted like fuel, allowing Melissa to rapidly strengthen into a catastrophic hurricane. Warmer oceans provide more energy and moisture to storms, leading to higher wind speeds and heavier rainfall, while rising sea levels worsen storm surge and flooding impacts.
Experts warn that as the planet continues to heat up, hurricanes like Melissa are likely to become more frequent, more destructive, and harder to predict, making climate adaptation and emission reductions more urgent than ever. - 10/27/2025.
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Hurricane Irene hit these parts in 2011 and the flooding and devastation was unprecedented, power outages for days! I visited my former summer camp in Vermont awhile after that and I could still see the water line from the lake flooding, it was several stories high and completely washed away all the cabins on the beach level and all the roads were washed out - And Irene, as devastating as it was here in New York, it was mild compared to what we're hearing about Melissa! 