There will never be another Hurricane Melissa as the World Meteorological Organization’s Hurricane Committee has retired ‘Melissa’ from its rotating list of names used each hurricane season.
It is practice for the names of deadly hurricanes to be retired from the list, the WMO noted in a press release on Wednesday, citing the death and destruction the hurricane caused in the Caribbean in October 2025.
The storm, now tied with Hurricane Allan as the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic basin, and with Hurricane Dorian and the 1935 Labour Day hurricane as the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane, was Jamaica’s strongest landfalling storm.
As it crossed the Caribbean in late October, the storm produced storm surge and winds across Jamaica and Cuba, causing catastrophic damage.
It also brought extreme rainfall and flooding to the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba. Ninety people lost their lives in the storm.
