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Jamaica Shudders Before Record-Breaking Hurricane Melissa

October 28, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Jamaica Shudders Before Record-Breaking Hurricane Melissa

KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 28, 2025 (ENS) – The eye of the “extremely dangerous” Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is approaching western Jamaica at this moment, menacing the Caribbean island nation with catastrophic winds, flash flooding, and storm surge, warn the Meteorological Service of Jamaica and the U.S. National Hurricane Center. […]

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Record Ocean Heat Generates Active Atlantic Hurricane Season

May 25, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on Record Ocean Heat Generates Active Atlantic Hurricane Season

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, May 25, 2025 (ENS) – Bring in the lawn furniture, folks, and bar the doors and windows. There is an 85 percent chance that the countries and U.S. states bordering the Atlantic Ocean are in for a difficult “above-normal” hurricane season this year, U.S. National Weather Service experts at the Climate Prediction Center are warning. […]

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Monstrous Hurricane Ian Smashes into Florida as a Category 4

September 28, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Monstrous Hurricane Ian Smashes into Florida as a Category 4

MIAMI, Florida, September 28, 2022 (ENS) – Blowing 155 miles per hour, Hurricane Ian made landfall this afternoon near the Florida barrier island of Cayo Costo off the southwest panhandle coast of Lee County. The storm forced hundreds of thousands to leave home to escape towering floods, and knocked out power to millions. […]