Food and assistance on the way to Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti in response to Hurricane Melissa's destructive path. AccuWeather meteorologists are monitoring the area for the possibility of another tropical storm or hurricane developing in the next two weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gathering data from planes inside hurricanes is a dangerous game and 52 lives have been lost since operations began in 1944. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Through the end of the week, some regions will face eventful weather for outdoor Halloween parades and trick-or-treat night. Check the forecast, if you dare! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It will be a stormy end to October in the eastern United States, and the drenching rain will be followed by a long-lasting burst of chilly air. Some snow may even fly over the northern mountains. Also, Hurricane Melissa has already unleashed deadly flooding, and after sweeping over Jamaica, it will take aim at Cuba and the Bahamas with life-threatening conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Although Jamaica has been hit by many hurricanes, prior to Tuesday a storm stronger than Category 3 has never made landfall on the island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Melissa has already turned deadly across Haiti and the Dominican Republic, but AccuWeather meteorologists warn that the worst may be yet to come with the storm on track to intensify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The dangerous phenomenon has already claimed one life in Oregon, as experts advise people along the coast to use caution to avoid being swept out to sea. Also,when Melissa departs the Caribbean later next week, it may contribute to stormy conditions along much of the United States East Coast with a new round of rough surf and beach erosion in some areas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A parade of storms will march into the Northwest from the Pacific with drenching rain, heavy mountain snow, and gusty winds into next week, raising the risk for flooding, travel disruptions, and power outages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Tropical Storm Melissa crawls through the Caribbean, it will strengthen to a hurricane and unleash torrential rain that may trigger major to extreme flooding and mudslides, endangering lives and property. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The BBC says climate change is leading to more extreme rainfall at the tail end of the monsoon season in India, which meteorologists used to say ended in September. This year, and for the last decade, the rainy season has lingered into October. Also, Covid-19 fell from the leading cause of death in 2021 to 20th place in 2023, with heart disease and stroke rising to again become the leading causes of death globally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From snowy nor’easters to frigid Arctic blasts, here’s what to expect this winter across the US — and where drought and warmth may dominate instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AccuWeather meteorologists explain why October is responsible for some of the most notorious Atlantic hurricanes in history and what climatological differences it brings compared to other months of hurricane season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Orionid meteor shower peaks Oct. 20–21 with up to 20 meteors per hour, and good weather is in the forecast for more than half of the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Water levels on the Mississippi and lower Ohio Rivers are dropping again, threatening barge traffic and commerce as drought conditions persist with little sign of relief in the coming weeks. Also, the World Meteorological Organization blamed the increasing carbon dioxide emissions on human activity, a rise in wildfires and a reduction in carbon sinks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The biggest storm in months unloaded heavy rain and mountain snow across California to start the week, forcing evacuations near areas devastates by historic wildfires. Also, an unusual double-ring structure spotted in space with the help of citizen scientists has turned out to be a cosmic rarity. The celestial anomaly, captured by a radio telescope, is an odd radio circle, one of the scarcest and most mysterious objects in the universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Severe storms with damaging winds, hail and downpours will track from the Rockies at midweek to part of Appalachians later this weekend, threatening travel, outdoor plans and sporadic power outages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tropical Storm Lorenzo took shape over the Atlantic on Monday, and another storm could join it by next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Flooding from both heavy rain and wind-driven storm surge will extend from eastern North Carolina to southern New England into Monday night as a sprawling tropical wind and rainstorm crawls northward before turning out to sea, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. Also, storms pushing inland from the Pacific will deliver the most significant rain and mountain snow to parts of the western United States since early last spring in the coming days. The storms will create travel disruptions, with mainly wet highways in the lower elevations and snowy, slippery conditions over the highest elevations. The greatest risk of flash flooding will be over the interior Southwest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new global weather pattern is taking shape in the Pacific Ocean, one that will help steer storms and influence temperatures across the United States into next year. After Hurricane Helene upended her plans, Betty Kellenberger completed the 2,200-mile hike from Georgia to Maine, setting a new age record on the legendary trail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Combined moisture from Priscilla and a newly-formed Tropical Storm Raymond will bring torrential downpours to parts of Mexico and the U.S. Southwest, with a risk of 4-8 inches of rain and life-threatening flash flooding. Also, a powerful tropical wind and rainstorm will unfold and bring days of coastal flooding, erosive surf, high winds and rain from the Carolinas to New England; Some areas may face impacts similar to a major nor'easter or hurricane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices