Fueled by unusually warm ocean temperatures, Hurricane Melissa—one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded—reached Category 5 strength, intensified by climate change. A new rapid attribution study finds that human-induced warming made the storm four times more likely to occur . According to the study, this storm was unlikely to have happened without the influence of climate change.
Climate change increased the intensity of a hurricane of the type of “Melissa” to an exceptional Category 5 at landfall. A “Melissa” type hurricane at landfall is about four times more likely in the 2025 climate compared to a pre-industrial baseline.
The new study indicates that a hurricane of this severity was exceptionally rare in the region, with landfall in Jamaica occurring only once every 8,000 years during the cooler,…more
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