The Latest Breaking News from Melissa

Climate disasters are ravaging government budgets – aid works best when paid upfront

When a cyclone destroyed Chompa Munda’s home in coastal Bangladesh in 2019, she and her son went days without food. When the next one came in 2024, her phone lit up hours before it made landfall.

The Conversation · Aug 27

Dolly Parton died, next Atlantic storm could share her name. Here’s why

The next Atlantic tropical storm will be named Dolly, following established naming procedures. Forecasters are monitoring a system off Africa which may strengthen into a named storm. This season is predicted to have below-average storm activity due to El Nino. Storm names are chosen for ease of pronunciation and familiarity…

The Economic Times · Aug 26

The trauma after the storm: Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of emotional devastation across Jamaica

Experts are calling for the integration of mental health into climate-disaster policy in the Caribbean as studies show that PTSD risks increase after hurricanes and displacement

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2025

How climate finance to help poor countries became a global shell game – donors have counted fossil fuel projects, airports and even ice cream shops

When Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean in October 2025, it left a trail of destruction. The Category 5 storm damaged buildings in Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba, snapped power lines and cut off entire neighborhoods from hospitals and aid.

The Conversation · Nov 19, 2025

Satellite captures destructive power of Hurricane Melissa | Space photo of the day for Nov. 17, 2025

The image shows the difference in temperature between the top of a hurricane and the bottom.

Space · Nov 17, 2025

Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies

Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2025

No time to recover: Hurricane Melissa and the Caribbean’s compounding disaster trap as the storms keep coming

Headlines have been filled with talk of the catastrophic power of Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm devastated communities across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti in October 2025. But to see this as a singular disaster misses the bigger picture: Melissa didn’t hit stable, resilient islands. It hit islands still…

The Conversation · Nov 12, 2025

Jamaica tallies losses from Hurricane Melissa as more than 2 dozen communities remain cut off

Officials in Jamaica say that Hurricane Melissa ripped the roofs off 120,000 structures when it struck last week, affecting some 90,000 families in the island’s western region

The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2025

Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba

Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared towards Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated – one in every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and…

The Conversation · Nov 6, 2025

‘We need help’: devastated Jamaican communities still await aid after Hurricane Melissa

Ravaged communities near Montego Bay recount what last week’s category 5 storm took from them

The Guardian - US · Nov 6, 2025