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The Atlantic hurricane season runs each year from June 1 to Nov. 30. The most active time is late August into October, but it's possible to see a hurricane make landfall any time of the year.

Hurricane season 2025: Hurricane Melissa down to Category 2 after making second landfall in Cuba

Our meteorologist Chris Michaels here in the WREL Severe Weather Center. While a lot of us were asleep, we had, uh, Hurricane Melissa make another landfall in Cuba as a Category 3 storm. You remember yesterday made landfall as a historic Category 5 storm in Jamaica. So now it's on its way toward the uh the Bahamas, but I, I tell you what, it really had a long time of being a Category 5 storm, and oftentimes when a storm reaches CT 5, the window of opportunity for it to Continue going at that strength is pretty small, but it's spent 34 straight hours at category 5 strength. Right now on WRAL.com, if you search, Ask the meteorologist, we're talking about why this storm defied the odds of what we would consider normal or typical, and show you some of the other historic Category 5 storms. Here's the latest on Melissa. It has been a Category 2 as it heads from Cuba to the Bahamas. It'll continue drifting toward Bermuda. Between now and Halloween morning, and then it'll drift off into the North Atlantic, where it will face some stronger wind, cooler waters, and therefore it will weaken. We've had 13 named storms this year, 3 of which have become Category 5, the record for 5 storms in a season is 4 set back in 2005. Obviously, we hope that no other storms develop, but we have another month left of hurricane season. If another storm does develop, you'll be the first to know by downloading our free WRL news and weather apps.

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Hurricane Melissa as of 8 a.m. Wednesday, 10/29/2025

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Rocky Mount police arrested Jabari Rogers, 19, and Houston Vance, 23, after they were accused of breaking into a Rocky Mount dealership and stealing cars from other counties. The two are being held in Nash County jail without bond.


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Officials announced Tuesday that the temporary closure of Rock Quarry Road was rescheduled due to bad weather. Originally set for this week, the closure will now occur nightly from Nov. 3 to Nov. 7, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., impacting traffic between Auburn Knightdale and Old Baucom roads.


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Before you grab that last-minute costume at a Halloween pop-up shop this year, the Better Business Bureau has three tips to help you save money.


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