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Watching TS Melissa – HMCI urges monitoring and vigilance
Tropical storm Melissa is churning in the Caribbean Sea, but her projected path is unclear at this time.
However Cayman’s Hazard Management team is reminding the community to be storm ready as hurricane season is not yet over.
Hazard Management Director Danielle Coleman urged vigilance and calm saying this is the season residents should always be prepared.
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Tropical Storm Melissa forms in the Caribbean Sea
The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida is issuing advisories for Tropical Storm Melissa, which at 4pm, 21 Oct. was located 305 miles south Port Au Prince Haiti or 656 miles southeast of Grand Cayman.
Melissa is moving towards the west at 14 mph with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. Slow strengthening is forecast, and Melissa is eventually expected to become a hurricane on Saturday, 25 Oct.
It is still a long way off from the Cayman Islands, and it is not clear that it will ever present a threat to the Cayman Islands, but the National Weather Service is urging residents in the Cayman Islands to closely track the progress of the storm.
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