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Caribbean, Tropical Storm and Melissa

Tropical Storm Melissa nears hurricane strength and drops torrential rain on Caribbean

Tropical Storm Melissa neared hurricane strength Saturday and was expected to rapidly intensify this weekend, as forecasters warned of massive rainfall and life-threatening flooding and landslides in...

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Tropical Storm Melissa brings death, major flooding threat to Caribbean

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Tropical Storm Melissa weakens, still forecast to become major hurricane in Caribbean Sea

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Tropical Storm Melissa: Follow the storm, possible impacts in Brevard

Forecasters are monitoring Tropical Storm Melissa, which is expected to become a “major” hurricane by the end of the weekend.

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Why Tropical Storm Melissa’s slow crawl across the Caribbean is dangerous

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Tropical Storm Melissa Lumbers Through the Caribbean, Killing an Elderly Man in Haiti

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Hurricane Melissa forms, could reach Category 5, heads toward Jamaica. Florida update

Catastrophic flash flooding and landslides are expected for Jamaica and Haiti, and possible for the Dominican Republic.

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Tropical Storm Melissa Poised to Become a Hurricane and Drop Torrential Rain on Caribbean

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Tropical Storm Melissa: Follow the storm, possible impacts in Sarasota

Hurricane Melissa strengthens into a Category 1 storm in the Caribbean. Maps show its forecast path.

Melissa is expected to strengthen from a tropical storm into a major hurricane and bring "catastrophic" flash flooding and landslides to Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic

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Tropical update: Conditions ripe for Tropical Storm Melissa to rapidly intensify

Melissa is currently the only active tropical system in the Atlantic basin. As of Friday night, the storm remains nearly stationary, drifting north at just 2 mph. Maximum sustained winds are around 65 mph—just below the 75 mph threshold needed to reach Category 1 hurricane status.

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Caribbean islands brace for harsh weather as 'ominous' Tropical Storm Melissa takes aim

Tropical Storm Melissa is set to intensify this weekend, and Jamaica and other Caribbean islands are bracing for harsh weather, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Thursday morning.

Jamaica under hurricane warning as Melissa barely moves. Haiti could see ‘extensive’ damage

Haiti is expected to see catastrophic flash floods and landslides early next week causing “extensive infrastructural damage and potentially prolonged isolation of communities.” The southwestern peninsula of Haiti, from the border of the Dominican Republic to Port-au-Prince, was placed under a hurricane watch and a tropical-storm warning.