How climate change fuelled Hurricane Melissa – and why it is only going to get worse: ‘This is our new normal’
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November 13, 2025
Hurricane Melissa tore its way through the Caribbean this week, with 185pmh winds laying waste to anything in its path.
Dozens of people have died and billions of dollars worth of damage has been caused after the category 5 storm made its way through Jamaica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the Bahamas.
However, while it was dubbed the “storm of the century”, forecasters have warned it could be anything but. Experts say climate change means storms of this severity are becoming far more commonplace.
