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In late October 2025, Hurricane Melissa devastated parts of Jamaica and produced catastrophic flooding. Tying the record for most intense hurricane to ever make landfall in the Atlantic basin, Melissa caused severe damage to infrastructure, forced evacuations and triggered numerous mudslides across mountainous areas. From a week before Melissa formed through its historic track through the Caribbean, AccuWeather customers were best prepared for the storm’s devastating impacts.
AccuWeather was the first to identify the potential for tropical development in the Caribbean, the first to forecast the risk of “life-threatening flooding,” and the first to predict that the storm would intensify into a hurricane.
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