“About as bad as it could possibly be. Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest storms on record ever to form in the Atlantic. Sustained winds were a hundred and eighty-five miles per hour, but a reconnaissance mission to the eyewall found gusts at sea level in excess of a hundred and ninety miles per hour, and much higher a few hundred feet up. Jamaica is mountainous, which almost certainly means mudslides from the massive rains. Although the heart of the storm is missing Kingston, Jamaica’s largest city, it will pummel one of the island’s key agricultural areas.” - —Bill McKibben, a contributing writer for The New Yorker who focuses on climate policy
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