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Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba

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10 November 202512 November 2025

Flood in Havana, Cuba. Photo by genadijs via Adobe Stock Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared towards Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000...Read More >

Hurricane Melissa is a warning – why violent storms are increasingly catching the world off guard

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30 October 202530 October 2025

Hurricane Melissa making landfall with Jamaica | ESA Hurricane Melissa is tearing through the Caribbean, bringing record-breaking wind and torrential rain to Jamaica – the island’s first ever category 5...Read More >

Upward global trends in the rapid intensification of tropical cyclones

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14 April 20234 April 2023

Rapid intensification can transform moderate tropical cyclones into major hurricanes in a single day – but is this due to human activity?

Is Europe at risk from hurricanes?

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29 June 202215 February 2023

Growing up in Europe late last century, I would have been a little surprised at this question, and my knee-jerk answer would have been a firm no: hurricanes happened on…Read More >

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