Tropical Storm Melissa forecast to be major hurricane; effect on Florida uncertain

Tropical Storm Melissa continued its slow push north in the Caribbean Thursday and is expected to grow into a major hurricane as it nears Jamaica. But its long-term path including what effects it might have on Florida remain uncertain, according to the National ...Read more

Tropical Storm Melissa continued Thursday its slow push north in the Caribbean, expected to grow into a major hurricane as it nears Jamaica, but its long-term path including what effects it might have on Florida remain uncertain, according to the National Hurricane Center.

In the NHC’s 8 a.m. advisory, Melissa had maximum sustained winds of ...Read more

Forecasters said Wednesday that Hurricane Melissa will likely form by Saturday and intensify into a major Category 3 hurricane by Sunday.

Experts said South Florida should be keeping an eye on the long-range tracking models even though forecasters say the odds of U.S. impact are low.

The system, which was about 320 miles south-southwest of ...Read more

Forecasters said Wednesday that Hurricane Melissa will likely form within 24 hours and intensify into a Category 2 hurricane by Sunday, with some models showing it even reaching major hurricane strength.

Experts said South Florida should be keeping an eye on the long-range tracking models even though forecasters say the odds of U.S. impact are ...Read more

Tropical Storm Melissa is on track to threaten Haiti as a hurricane over the weekend, bringing heavy rains and life-threatening flooding to the island nation. Jamaica and Cuba also could feel the effects as the storm meanders slowly north in the Caribbean.

The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday put Haiti’s southern peninsula under a ...Read more

Tropical Storm Melissa has officially formed, and the first forecast track suggests it could threaten Haiti as a hurricane over the weekend.

As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center issued its first forecast track and cone for Melissa, which is expected to strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane as soon as Saturday as it approaches ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Monday said a Caribbean system has a high chance to form into Tropical Storm Melissa this week, with some forecast paths having it turn north and threaten landfall.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, the tropical wave located in the eastern Caribbean Sea had a concentrated area of showers ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Monday said a Caribbean system has a high chance to form into Tropical Storm Melissa this week with some forecast paths having it turn north and threaten landfall.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, the tropical wave located in the eastern Caribbean Sea had a concentrated area of showers and...Read more

A tropical wave, located very near the islands in the far southeastern Caribbean on Sunday, could develop this week — potentially into a tropical depression or tropical storm, experts said.

The system “currently lacks a closed circulation,” but is becoming more organized and could become a tropical depression in the coming days, according...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Sunday increased the chances a Caribbean-bound system will develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the tropical wave, dubbed Invest 98L, was on top of the Caribbean’s Windward Islands with a large area of showers and thunderstorms, but without ...Read more

There are two disturbances in the Atlantic basin, one of which could become the next named storm of the season in the Caribbean in the next week or so.

The National Hurricane Center currently gives both disturbances a low chance of developing anytime soon. As of 2 p.m. Eastern time Friday, the disturbance nearest to the Caribbean had no chance ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For decades, state and federal officials have been warning about the kind of catastrophic damage wrought by the storm that hit Western Alaska over the weekend.

But those predictions, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for mitigation efforts, were not enough to prevent dozens of homes from ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has requested that President Donald Trump declare a major disaster for the state in response to storm damage in Western Alaska.

"I determined this incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the state and affected local governments," Dunleavy ...Read more

There’s a new system worth watching in the Atlantic.

Thursday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center began tracking a tropical wave that could form in the Caribbean. As of 2 p.m. Eastern time, forecasters gave it no chance of developing in the next two days and a 20% shot of strengthening into a tropical depression or storm within the next ...Read more

Hundreds of people were being evacuated from the Western Alaska village of Kipnuk Wednesday after residents were told to pack a single bag and leave the community, one of the hardest hit by a catastrophic storm that deluged swaths of the Yukon-Kuskokwim region over the weekend.

The storm left housing uninhabitable and utilities inoperable in ...Read more

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Lorenzo, which weakened in the face of aggressive wind shear in the open Atlantic, dissolved Wednesday afternoon.

Forecasters for the National Hurricane Center issued a final advisory for the storm Wednesday at 5 p.m. Eastern time.

There are no other areas of interest on the hurricane center’s map.

_____