Month: October 2025

Hurricane Melissa

A powerful Category 5 – Hurricane Melissa made landfall across western Jamaica on 28 October 2025. The hurricane brought strong winds (as high as 185 miles per hour), torrential rainfall and storm surge to the island, while inducing life threatening flooding, power outages, and damage to airports causing flight cancellations or delays. After the hurricane Continue Reading

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Western Alaska Floods

By J. Torres (CIRA), C. Dierking (GINA) and J. Delamere (GINA). In Early October 2025, Typhoon Halong developed in the north Philippine Sea, skirted near Japan and eventually trekked eastward into the north Pacific Ocean. The storm became post-tropical, but continued to travel eastward through the north Pacific, then traversed through the Aleutian Islands and Continue Reading

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Dense Fog across the High Plains

Dense Fog Advisories blanketed the high plains earlier this morning, extending from Nebraska to Wyoming and northern Colorado. National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) published social media posts online to remind the general public of how dense the fog could be, with less than a 1/4 mile visibility possible across their respective County Continue Reading

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Nighttime Visible Imagery over the Atlantic

Over the past two weeks, a few hurricanes (Gabrielle, Humberto, and Imelda) traversed over the Atlantic Ocean, and either skirted along or directly impacted the United Kingdom (U.K.) territory of Bermuda. Nighttime visible imagery provided from the VIIRS Near-Constant Contrast (NCC) product captured the synoptic scaled systems across the Atlantic. Note, for the best optimal Continue Reading

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