Hurricane Melissa, a devastating Category 5 hurricane, slammed into the island of Jamaica on Tuesday, 28 October, with a minimum central pressure of 892 hPa and sustained winds of 295 km/h (185 mph). The extremely strong and dangerous winds, rainfall, and storm surge caused immense destruction in its wake.
Melissa became the most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall between 1851 and 2025. It shares this incredible record with the Labor Day Hurricane, which also registered a minimum pressure of 892 hPa and occurred in 1935. But now, another impressive fact has caught the attention of several meteorology and climatology experts.
Explosive intensifications of hurricanes, something that is becoming increasingly frequent
According to Kieran Bhatia, an expert on tropical…more
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