Tropical Storm Melissa, Florida
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The map showed levels of fine particle (PM2.5) pollution in the "unhealthy" category spanning communities just north of Jacksonville, including Nassauville, Franklintown, Fernandina Beach, Yulee, Callahan, O’Neil, Fawnwood, and Kingsland.
Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to rapidly intensify over the weekend into a Category 4 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. The slow-moving storm is forecast to bring "life-threatening and catastrophic flash flooding and landslides to southern Hispaniola and Jamaica through the weekend.
As you slept, chances have increased for development of a tropical depression or tropical storm to form in the central Atlantic. And another tropical wave with a low chance for development is moving off the coast of Africa, according to the latest advisory ...
"Some SIGNIFICANT rain totals possible on the east coast of Florida Thursday into Friday," one meteorologist said.