{"id":26734,"date":"2025-10-30T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26734\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:22:08","slug":"hurricane-melissa-churning-far-off-florida-but-will-still-impact-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26734\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Melissa churning far off Florida but will still impact the state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">ORLANDO, FL \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/weather\/hurricane\/2025\/10\/21\/the-13th-tropical-storm-of-the-season-forms-over-the-central-caribbean-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/weather\/hurricane\/2025\/10\/21\/the-13th-tropical-storm-of-the-season-forms-over-the-central-caribbean-sea\/\">Hurricane Melissa<\/a> has delivered devastating impacts to Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas over the last few days, and now it\u2019s finally moving out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/hurricane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/hurricane\/\">Caribbean<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">As of Thursday, it was sitting about 500 miles off the Florida coastline, but it will keep churning up the ocean through the next few days. That, combined with a strong cold front boosting winds across Central Florida, means indirect impacts along our beaches are expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A high rip current risk remains in place through Friday and may be extended into the weekend. Boating conditions are poor, and it\u2019s strongly discouraged to get in the water right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">As of the 11 a.m. Thursday update, Melissa had sustained winds of 105 mph, higher gusts and was moving north-northeast at 24 mph. The storm\u2019s wind field has grown \u2014hurricane-force winds now stretch up to 75 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds reach out about 220 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Melissa Wind Field (11 a.m.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">With rough seas and 3\u20135-foot surf, numerous life-threatening rip currents are expected. <\/p>\n<p>Wave heights<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Remember: rip currents often form on calm, sunny days. If you\u2019re ever caught in one, don\u2019t swim against it. Instead, stay calm and swim left or right along the shoreline to escape.<\/p>\n<p>Coastal Impacts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[VIDEO BELOW: Melissa devastates Jamaica]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, FL \u2013 Hurricane Melissa has delivered devastating impacts to Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6104,28,30,29,508,1846,12864,5097,1201,221],"class_list":["post-26734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-beaches","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-forecast","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricane-melissa","tag-melissa","tag-rip-currents","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734","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=26734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}