Phoenix isn’t done with the 90s just yet 😎☀️ Highs stay near 90° through early next week, including for Halloween tomorrow🎃🌵

💨 A breezy Wednesday ahead with a of 91°, then a little cooldown just in time for Halloween🎃 Temps dip into the upper 80s Friday and Saturday before warming back up next week.

The Sentinel-2 satellite captured this image of Melissa's eye at peak intensity. 10m pixel resolution - one of the best satellite images ever captured of a hurricane of this intensity. Image from 16z this morning.

NEW: #Melissa just made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica, with winds of 185 mph and a pressure of 892 mb. This is the strongest landfall on record in the Atlantic Basin, tied only with the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane 90 years ago. Incredible, raw power.

Hurricane #Melissa has made landfall in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope.

Melissa landfall imminent...

185 mph and 892 mb...

New data coming in from the @NOAA_HurrHunter and it silences everyone at @weatherchannel. An official update will come soon but this real-time-data is EXTREMELY alarming for Jamaica. @JimCantore @StephanieAbrams

Hurricane Melissa has exploded in strength: 180 mph winds, 896 mb pressure. That puts it among the top 6 most intense hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic.

🔥 90s are sticking around for a bit! Phoenix is running 5–8° above normal with highs in the low 90s through midweek. A SLIGHT cooldown just in time for Halloween 🎃 (upper 80s!)

Hurricane Melissa is closing in on Jamaica with landfall expected within hours...

Melissa bearing down on Jamaica this morning with recon data that continues to support the rarest group of hurricanes to ever roam the atlantic in our lifetime. There have only been 6 hurricanes with sub 900mb pressures in the basin. Melissa could join them before landfall.

#Melissa's pressure is down to 903 mb - the 7th lowest for an Atlantic #hurricane since pressure consistently recorded in 1979. Here are top six: Wilma (2005): 882 mb Gilbert (1988): 888 mb Milton (2024): 895 mb Rita (2005): 895 mb Allen (1980): 899 mb Katrina (2005): 902 mb

Hurricane #Melissa is continuing its "stall-and-turn" sequence that will see it begin moving NNE towards western #Jamaica overnight tonight. Unfortunately, Melissa remains a Cat 5 hurricane with no concrete signs of being disrupted in the short-term, and could potentially make

Fifth and final pass through Hurricane Melissa for our crew today. Just after noon entering from the NW corner exiting SE.

BREAKING: The Hurricane Hunters have found BIRDS in Melissa's eye. Tens of thousands have likely been sucked into the eye, unable to fight against the strong inward winds. Most of these bird are trapped. Sometimes they can’t escape until the storm weakens, unless they encounter

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

🚨 Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa, a monster storm with winds now up to 175 mph, is slowly turning west-northwestward at just 3 mph.

☀️ Phoenix is heating back up for the end of October! Highs near 90–92° through midweek before a SLIGHT Halloween cooldown🎃 Trick-or-treat temps? Comfortable 70s after sunset! #azwx

🚨 CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE MELISSA 🚨 Winds up to 160 mph as this monster storm crawls west near Jamaica.