{"id":230388,"date":"2025-10-28T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230388\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:19:07","slug":"hurricane-melissa-barrels-through-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230388\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Melissa barrels through the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image captured by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission<\/a> on 26 October 2025 shows the \u2018brightness temperature\u2019 at the top of Hurricane Melissa as it barrelled through the Caribbean Sea towards Jamaica, where it is expected\u00a0 to make landfall.<\/p>\n<p>Classified as a Category 5 storm by the US-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Hurricane Center<\/a>, Hurricane Melissa is the world\u2019s strongest storm so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>The brightness temperature of the clouds at the top of the storm, high above the ocean, range from about \u201375\u00b0C near the eye of the storm to about \u201325\u00b0C at the edges. The temperature of the surrounding ocean is much warmer, reaching as high as 25\u00b0C. This image has been overlaid with the landmasses below.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricanes are a force of nature that can be tracked only by satellites, providing up-to-date imagery so that authorities know when to take precautionary measures.\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/disasterscharter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">International Charter \u2018Space &amp; Major Disasters<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mapping.emergency.copernicus.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Copernicus Emergency Mapping Service<\/a> rely on satellite data to support disaster management and recovery. Both services have been activated to help teams responding to Hurricane Melissa.<\/p>\n<p>Satellites deliver information on a storm\u2019s extent, wind speed and path, and on key features such as cloud thickness, temperature, and water and ice content. Sentinel-3\u2019s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer measures energy radiating from Earth\u2019s surface in nine spectral bands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 26 October 2025 shows the \u2018brightness temperature\u2019 at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-230388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}