NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

The fact that we went nearly 20 years without a sub-900 mb Atlantic hurricane and now we’ve had two in just the last two seasons.

Melissa shattered the record for the driest eye ever recorded globally with an incredible -2.25°C, smashing the previous record by nearly 3°C (Typhoon Meranti, 2016).

White House — Landfall point.

NEW: Devastating imagery from Jamaica, before & after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa.

Black River — near total destruction.

Hurricane Melissa’s historic journey to becoming one of the most intense tropical cyclones ever recorded on Earth.

A storm we won't forget anytime soon.

Some significant rain totals are possible across parts of the Valencian Community, Spain by the end of the weekend (+350mm). Flash flooding is possible where those biggest totals occur. Red warnings are in force.

Sunset on Hurricane Humberto.

A Category 5 monster.

Here’s a 48-hour water vapor loop of Ex-Hurricane Erin spinning on its final approach to Europe. Truly mesmerizing.

Before-and-after satellite imagery shows multiple large burn scars from the recent major wildfires in Portugal and Spain.

Here’s a first-of-its-kind vertical cross-section analysis of the eyewall of Category 5 Hurricane Erin, captured by AgileRadar’s ROARS radar system installed on NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters P-3 aircraft.

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin.

Simply incredible.