Hurricane Melissa Approaches Jamaica | NOAA GOES-19 Weather Satellite

Hurricane Melissa Approaches Jamaica | NOAA GOES-19 Weather Satellite

Here is the latest National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather forecast summary for The Caribbean: "Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is now moving northwestward. Warnings are issued for The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Catastrophic and life threating winds, flooding, and storm surge expected on Jamaica." 

Visit the U.S. National Hurricane Center for updates: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

A Category 5 hurricane is defined as a tropical cyclone that reaches the highest intensity on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale with sustained winds of 157 mph (252 km/h) or higher. Such hurricanes can cause catastrophic damage, posing significant dangers to people, livestock, and pets due to flying debris. The Saffir-Simpson scale rates hurricanes from 1 to 5 based solely on their maximum sustained wind speed.

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean. It is the third-largest island in the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean, after Cuba and the island of Hispaniola. Jamaica lies about 145 km (78 nmi) south of Cuba, 191 km (103 nmi) west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and 215 km (116 nmi) southeast of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

Budget Alert: The White House budget request on May 2, 2025, calls for a 24 percent cut to NOAA's budget. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has already terminated over 800 NOAA employees, raising concerns about the frequency of essential forecasting tasks like launching weather balloons. The NOAA science budget is hit even harder. Trump proposes a 74 percent cut to NOAA's Office of Oceanic Research.

Contact your representatives in the United States Congress, House and Senate, to express your concerns about severe budget cuts at NOAA:

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GOES-19 is a weather satellite, the fourth and last of the GOES-R series of satellites. GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.

 

Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Duration: 4 seconds
Release Date: Oct. 27, 2025

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