**LIVE Q&A today with me and NHC Director Mike Brennan. We'll be discussing Tropical Storm and eventually Hurricane Melissa LIVE on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, X, Instagram, and LinkedIn. I hope you'll join us and send in your questions. LIVE at 4 PM ET.   Tropical Storm Melissa   There is a reasonable consensus in the computer forecast models that Tropical Storm Melissa will become Hurricane Melissa over the weekend and turn north next week, crossing Cuba or Haiti before acce

Tropical Storm Melissa's speed has decreased dramatically, and that trend is forecast to continue. There is reasonably high consensus in the computer forecasts that the storm will creep generally north for the next few days. A weak dip in the jet stream over the Bahamas will try to scoop Melissa out of the Caribbean but will end up just tugging it north.   The storm will likely have to wait for another jet stream dip that reaches far enough south to get the job done. In the m