Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft measured flight-level winds of 154 knots and confirmed a central pressure of 917 mb inside Melissa’s eye — signs of an extremely powerful storm. The hurricane’s eye is just 10 nautical miles wide and surrounded by cloud tops colder than –86 °C, evidence of deep convection and explosive intensification. Melissa is expected to gradually turn northwest and then north before accelerating northeastward across southeastern Cuba and the Bahamas by midweek. Th

We now officially have a tropical depression in the Philippine Sea. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has classified it, while PAGASA has yet to issue an upgrade — but once it does, it will be named “Tino” inside the Philippine Area of Responsibility. Current guidance shows this system moving west toward the Eastern Visayas, with most models indicating a tropical storm making landfall around Samar or Leyte by late Monday into Tuesday. Some guidance, including the Google DeepMind AI model, is