{"id":105111,"date":"2025-10-26T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/105111\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:27:09","slug":"storm-melissas-dangerous-forecast-stalling-over-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/105111\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Melissa&#8217;s Dangerous Forecast: Stalling Over the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">For days, Storm Melissa has barely budged. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-24\/storm-melissa-threatens-jamaica-on-track-to-reach-category-4?srnd=undefined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">portends<\/a> potentially catastrophic flooding for parts of the Caribbean as soon as this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Melissa is projected to morph into a Category 4 hurricane\u2014one notch below the highest level\u2014while lingering off the coasts of Jamaica and Haiti. The risk is clear: a storm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-11-14\/science-confirms-hurricane-harvey-was-indeed-biblical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">akin to Hurricane Harvey<\/a>, which produced deadly flooding when it stalled over Houston in 2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For days, Storm Melissa has barely budged. It portends potentially catastrophic flooding for parts of the Caribbean as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[33114,12337,23169,246,18447,8762,9817,61,60,63394,19144,3588,82,115],"class_list":["post-105111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-americas","tag-caribbean","tag-cuba","tag-environment","tag-green","tag-haiti","tag-houston","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jamaica","tag-latin-america","tag-miami","tag-science","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}