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Melissa

Every dispatch filed on Melissa, in order, so you can watch the call sharpen from first mention to the last word.

9Dispatches
10Days · OCT 19–OCT 28
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed1 of 9 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
NHC 60% chance of Melissa developing in Caribbean this coming week FIGURE 1 OCT 19 · I-26 TROPICS NHC 60% chance of Melissa developing in Caribbean this coming week NHC 100% chance of Tropical Storm Melissa developing Tuesday FIGURE 1 OCT 21 · I-26 TROPICS NHC 100% chance of Tropical Storm Melissa developing Tuesday Major hurricane intensity likely in 4-days FIGURE 1 OCT 22 · I-26 TROPICS Major hurricane intensity likely in 4-days Melissa nearing hurricane intensity on way to Category 5 FIGURE 1 OCT 24 · I-26 TROPICS Melissa nearing hurricane intensity on way to Category 5
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · OCT 19 NHC 60% chance of Melissa developing in Caribbean this coming week Caribbean
  2. Exit 2 · OCT 20 · Subscribers NHC 90% chance of Tropical Storm Melissa soon
  3. Exit 3 · OCT 21 NHC 100% chance of Tropical Storm Melissa developing Tuesday
  4. Exit 4 · OCT 22 Major hurricane intensity likely in 4-days
  5. Exit 5 · OCT 23 · Subscribers Major hurricane intensity likely within 3-days with Category 5 potential
  6. Exit 6 · OCT 24 Melissa nearing hurricane intensity on way to Category 5
  7. Exit 7 · OCT 25 · Subscribers Hurricane Melissa is rapidly intensifying
  8. Exit 8 · OCT 27 · Subscribers Hurricane Melissa remains a very powerful Category 5
  9. Exit 9 · OCT 28 · Subscribers Historical landfall of Category 5+ Hurricane Melissa
END Final dispatch OCT 28.

Why I-26?

Tropical stories ride Interstate 26, after the 26 °C sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development.

26 °C

The sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development; the shield number of this road.

Invest

An area the Hurricane Center is investigating, numbered 90–99 with a basin letter, before it has a name.

ACE

Accumulated Cyclone Energy: a season's wind, squared and summed every six hours. Climatology sets the scale.