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Earth Sciences Jan 13, 2026

Investigating a plume of bright blue in the wake of Hurricane Melissa

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on October 28, 2025, as a category 5 storm, bringing sustained winds of 295 kilometers (185 miles) per hour and leaving a broad path of destruction on the island. The storm displaced ...

Earth Sciences Dec 15, 2025

2025's extreme weather had the jet stream's fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes

The summer of 2025 brought unprecedented flash flooding across the U.S., with the central and eastern regions hit particularly hard. These storms claimed hundreds of lives across Texas, Kentucky and several other states and ...

Environment Nov 20, 2025

As US government cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings

Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica in late October, killed dozens in Haiti and forced nearly three-quarters of a million Cubans to evacuate. The death toll across the region is still unknown—but Melissa will go down as ...

Environment Nov 9, 2025

Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba

Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared toward Cuba's second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island's president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated—1 of every 15 Cubans. The storm had already ...

Environment Nov 7, 2025

Hurricane? Cyclone? Typhoon? Here's the difference

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 114 people in the Philippines with even more missing and then hit Vietnam Friday. A second typhoon, Fong-Wong, is forecast to hit the Philippines around Sunday and strengthen to a major ...

General Physics Nov 5, 2025

Paradox of rotating turbulence finally tamed with 'hurricane-in-a-lab'

From stirring milk in your coffee to fearsome typhoon gales, rotating turbulent flows are everywhere. Yet, these spinning currents are as scientifically complex as they are banal. Describing, modeling, and predicting turbulent ...

Environment Nov 2, 2025

50 dead as Caribbean digs out from Hurricane Melissa

Jamaican officials announced plans Saturday to set up multiple field hospitals as it recovers from Hurricane Melissa, with the death toll numbering at least 50 across the Caribbean—and expected to rise.

Environment Oct 31, 2025

Nearly 50 dead after Hurricane Melissa thrashes Caribbean

Hurricane Melissa was finally leaving the Caribbean Friday after battering communities there for days, leaving a trail of devastation that killed around 50 people.

Environment Oct 29, 2025

Cubans flee the coast as Hurricane Melissa looms

Under sheets of rain and laden with possessions, residents of southeast Cuba fled inland Tuesday—escaping the peril of the coast before Hurricane Melissa's arrival.

Environment Oct 29, 2025

Melissa is a beast among a string of monster Atlantic storms. Scientists explain

Hurricane Melissa, which struck Jamaica with record-tying 185 mph winds Tuesday, was a beast that stood out as extreme even in a record number of monster storms spawned over the last decade in a superheated Atlantic Ocean.

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