{"id":14891,"date":"2025-10-22T00:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14891\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:58:07","slug":"tropical-storm-melissa-churns-in-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14891\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Melissa churns in Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTropical Storm Melissa formed over the central Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.Melissa will bring heavy rainfall to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with totals of 5 to 10 inches expected through Friday.  Melissa is about 310 miles south-southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, according to the NHC.  The system has a minimum central pressure of 1003 mb and maximum sustained winds of 50 mph.The NHC advised that residents in Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Cuba should closely monitor the development of this system. These locations are at risk of heavy rain, flooding, strong winds and hazardous surf conditions later this week.Watches and warnings in effect: Hurricane Watch is in effect for Haiti from the border with the Dominican Republic to Port-Au-Prince.Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Jamaica.Long-range tropics forecast with Eric Burris Hurricane season 2025The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. Stay with WESH 2 online and on-air for the most accurate Central Florida weather forecast.&gt;&gt; More: 2025 Hurricane Survival GuideThe First Warning Weather team includes First Warning Chief Meteorologist Tony Mainolfi, Eric Burris, Marquise Meda and Cam Tran.&gt;&gt; 2025 hurricane season | WESH long-range forecast&gt;&gt; Download Very Local | Stream Central Florida news and weather from WESH 2\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Melissa formed over the central Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT3+shtml\/211445.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the National Hurricane Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa will bring heavy rainfall to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with totals of 5 to 10 inches expected through Friday.  <\/p>\n<p>Melissa is about 310 miles south-southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, according to the NHC.  <\/p>\n<p>The system has a minimum central pressure of 1003 mb and maximum sustained winds of 50 mph.<\/p>\n<p>The NHC advised that residents in Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Cuba should closely monitor the development of this system. <\/p>\n<p>These locations are at risk of heavy rain, flooding, strong winds and hazardous surf conditions later this week.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tropical Storm Melissa developed in the Caribbean Sea and it is going to be a SLOW mover dumping very heavy rain Haiti and Jamaica. NHC says there&#8217;s &#8220;significant uncertainly in track and intensity&#8221; with this system. You can see that in the model spread! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wesh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#wesh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/weather?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#weather<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Melissa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Melissa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/120wikffMt\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/120wikffMt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cam Tran WESH (@CamTranTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CamTranTV\/status\/1980654358644805984?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watches and warnings in effect: Hurricane Watch is in effect for Haiti from the border with the Dominican Republic to Port-Au-Prince.Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Jamaica.Long-range tropics forecast with Eric Burris <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from YouTube.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane season 2025<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. Stay with WESH 2 online and on-air for the most accurate Central Florida weather forecast.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/florida-hurricane-survival-guide-2025\/64907685\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Hurricane Survival Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The First Warning Weather team includes First Warning Chief Meteorologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news-team\/c15dac96-e8e1-4a2f-8a7c-b0d9c1d1ede8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Mainolfi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news-team\/b84a2751-86e2-4b70-8f05-12ecc06b0236\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Burris<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news-team\/3dfc326b-9da6-4263-b1a0-92b081d5d993\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marquise Meda<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news-team\/97bcf79a-31d8-4f11-b87a-39b3812b68f6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Tran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; 2025 hurricane season | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/florida-2025-hurricane-season-forecast\/63935465\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WESH long-range forecast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; Download Very Local | <a href=\"https:\/\/verylocal.smart.link\/uyzagwamw?site_id=website-htv&amp;creative_id=wesh&amp;cp_0=general-use&amp;cp_1=static-weather\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream Central Florida news and weather from WESH 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Melissa formed over the central Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.Melissa will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2655,28,30,29,12874,12875,1161,5095,1846,12864,12859,12860,1847,12863,12146,12861,12862,9712,12870,12872,12866,4102,2171,12876,12877,9708,12865,12867,12873,12869,12868,918,12871],"class_list":["post-14891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-caribbean","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gusty-wind","tag-hazardous-surf-condition","tag-heavy-rain","tag-hispaniola","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricane-melissa","tag-hurricane-melissa-path","tag-hurricane-melissa-track","tag-hurricane-season","tag-hurricane-tracker","tag-jamaica","tag-melissa-storm-track","tag-melissa-tropical-storm","tag-national-hurricane-center","tag-national-hurricane-center-noaa","tag-nhc","tag-noaa-hurricane","tag-puerto-rico","tag-resident","tag-risk","tag-strong-wind","tag-system","tag-tropical-storm-melissa-2025","tag-tropical-storm-melissa-2025-path","tag-tropical-storm-melissa-form","tag-tropical-storm-melissa-projected-path","tag-ts-melissabreakout","tag-wesh","tag-when-is-hurricane-season-over"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}