{"id":149111,"date":"2025-10-28T07:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149111\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:10:08","slug":"hurricane-hunters-fly-through-eye-of-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149111\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hurricane hunters&#8217; fly through eye of Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force Reserve&#8217;s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the &#8220;Hurricane Hunters,&#8221; flew through Hurricane Melissa yesterday to collect vital data for the National Hurricane Center (NHC).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2025\/1028\/1540836-hurricane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Category 5 storm, with sustained winds of 282km\/h, threatens Jamaica with catastrophic damage as it approaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa, described as &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; by the NHC, is expected to hit Jamaica late today or early tomorrow before moving across eastern Cuba and the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters have warned of unprecedented winds and widespread destruction, exacerbated by the storm&#8217;s slow movement over warm Caribbean waters.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Andrew Holness ordered evacuations for southern Jamaica, including Port Royal, but some residents resisted due to looting concerns. &#8220;There is no infrastructure in the region that can withstand a Category 5,&#8221; Mr Holness said, as the island braces for devastating impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Air Force Reserve&#8217;s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the &#8220;Hurricane Hunters,&#8221; flew through Hurricane Melissa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-149111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115450545828414788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}