{"id":112605,"date":"2025-10-30T17:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/112605\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:46:14","slug":"the-complex-deadly-combination-that-turned-hurricane-melissa-into-a-real-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/112605\/","title":{"rendered":"The complex, deadly combination that turned Hurricane Melissa into a real monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Climate change is adding to slow pace of the storm, meaning more damage\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Residents stand on the wreckage of a house destroyed by Hurricane Melissa in Santa Cruz, Jamaica. Photo: AP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CARIBBEAN  (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Residents stand on the wreckage of a house destroyed by Hurricane Melissa in Santa Cruz, Jamaica. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Experts say that Hurricane Melissa\u2019s powerful winds and its slow pace, likely exacerbated by climate change, have allowed the huge storm to linger in the Caribbean region for maximum damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Jonathan Porter, chief meteorologist at AccuWeather, said that the storm was \u201ca dire situation unfolding in slow motion\u201d, noting that \u201cslow-moving major hurricanes often go down in history as some of the deadliest and most destructive storms\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Climate change is adding to slow pace of the storm, meaning more damage Residents stand on the wreckage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2885,246,61,60,82,767],"class_list":["post-112605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112605","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=112605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}