{"id":251384,"date":"2025-10-31T02:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251384\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:31:22","slug":"hurricane-melissa-now-tracking-over-avalon-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251384\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Melissa Now Tracking Over Avalon Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/canadian-hurricane-centre-hurricane-melissa-october-30-2025.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Hurricane Melissa Now Tracking Over Avalon Peninsula\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurricane Melissa&#8217;s track as of 9:30 NDT Thursday morning (Canadian Hurricane Centre)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s looking more likely that Newfoundland and Labrador will feel the impacts of Hurricane Melissa. <\/p>\n<p>The powerful system made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm, causing widespread destruction in that nation as well as other Caribbean countries such as Haiti and Cuba, resulting in numerous casualties. <\/p>\n<p>Early tracks for Melissa had the storm passing well off our coast, however the latest information from the Canadian Hurricane Centre has seen a shift in the track.<\/p>\n<p>Now, part of the \u201ccone of uncertainty,\u201d or the area where the storm could track, is directly over the Avalon Peninsula. <\/p>\n<p>The track has the storm passing the province with category 1 force winds, initially at 130 km\/h then diminishing to 120 km\/h. <\/p>\n<p>Melissa is currently down in the tropics as a Category 2 hurricane. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Hurricane Melissa&#8217;s track as of 9:30 NDT Thursday morning (Canadian Hurricane Centre) It\u2019s looking more likely that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-251384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}