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Hurricane Melissa, Climate change

Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds

Melissa was one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall and brought destructive weather to Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba, causing dozens of deaths across the Caribbean.

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Was climate change to blame for the strength of Hurricane Melissa?

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Hurricane Melissa was a freak storm. Science says climate change made it freakier

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Here’s how much Hurricane Melissa was worsened by climate change

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness estimated losses will be as high as $7 billion, equivalent to a third of the nation’s 2024 GDP.

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Jamaica struggles to remove debris from Hurricane Melissa as communities remain cut off

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Hurricane Melissa: How to Help Impacted Communities in Jamaica

Global Warming Made Hurricane Melissa More Damaging, Researchers Say

Since World Weather Attribution was founded in 2014, it has published more than 100 studies that quickly link the impact of global warming to heat waves, drought, wildfires and storms. It has found that other damaging storms, like Hurricane Helene and Milton last year, were more intense and devastating because of climate change.

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Hurricane Melissa left meteorologists stunned and worried

Melissa’s terrifying trip through the Caribbean also piled on evidence of the influence of a warming ocean on an evolving hurricane landscape.