Hurricane Melissa weakened slightly, but it was still a powerful Category 4 after making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 28, as the strongest-ever storm to directly hit the Caribbean na...

Melissa, now a Category 2 hurricane, will bring heavy rain from the Mid-Atlantic to New England as it heads toward Bermuda and Newfoundland, Canada.

According to the new attribution study from Imperial College London, climate change ramped up Melissa’s wind speeds by 7 percent, which increased damages by 12 percent.