The Guardian reported on the case of Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown after the hurricane. Her mother, Kerrian Bigby, a carer, moved from Jamaica to be with Lati-Yana's British father, Jerome Hardy, a telecommunications worker, in April 2023, leaving their daughter to be cared for by her grandmother. The couple married this year and after saving up for the 4,000 visa application fee for Lati-Yana to join them, applied in June.
The image shows an absolutely mammoth hurricane eye, punctuated by a flock of birds circling safely above. Yet as retired meteorologist and National Weather Service science and operations office Rich Grumm told Yale's CC, the scale of the image simply doesn't work - Melissa's eye was reported to be around 10 miles wide. "Based on the scale of the eye, these birds would be larger than football fields," Grumm told CC.
Atrocities continue as Sudan's military retreats from el-Fasher, a town in Darfur that has been under a grueling siege for more than 500 days. Also, Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica with catastrophic winds and the potential for widespread flooding and landslides. And, President Vladimir Putin says Russia has a nuclear-powered cruise missile that can't be intercepted by US technology, and that it's been tested successfully and is ready to be deployed. Plus, an ant that can give birth to an entirely different species.
Hurricane Melissa has shut down Jamaica's airports and is disrupting flights through the Caribbean. A map published by FlightRadar at around 8 a.m. ET on Wednesday shows how flights to and from the US are avoiding the hurricane, which is the most powerful ever to hit Jamaica. As the hurricane moved north over Cuba, flights between Florida and the Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico were forced to take longer routes around it.
Over the next few days, we're going to see countless images coming out of Jamaica and Cuba showing the sheer devastation that Hurricane Melissa has wrought. Trillions of gallons of water will then be moved northward within this weather system as the hurricane continues to lose strength on its approach to Bermuda before eventually moving into the North Atlantic. While all of this is going on in the atmosphere, low pressure will be moving from the Tennessee River Valley into Pennsylvania,
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