When Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica last week, it did so as one of the strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall on record.
Its winds reached 295 kph and it dumped more than a metre of rain in parts of Jamaica as it left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean.
A rapid analysis from London’s Imperial College shows human-driven climate change may have made the storm more likely, and more intense.
Did climate change make Melissa stronger?
Using a high-resolution storm-simulation model, scientists at Imperial College London’s Grantham Institute compared thousands of possible “Melissa-type” hurricanes under pre-industrial, present-day and future
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