Climate Change, Hurricane Melissa
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Advancements in technology are allowing researchers to determine the extent to which climate change contributed to some extreme weather events.
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Hurricane Melissa now holds a place in Atlantic basin record books as one of the most powerful tropical cyclones to develop and make landfall. The storm became a hurricane at 11 a.m. Saturday with peak winds of 75 mph. Just 24 hours later, the storm's strength had nearly doubled with eyewall winds estimated at 140 mph.
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Search and rescue efforts stretch into a third day after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic storms on record. Nearly a half million people on the island remain without power.