An important note. Most of the strongest recorded hurricanes never made landfall at their peak intensity. It appears Melissa may not follow that rule.

Right now it looks like we could see some early morning activity Wednesday, then we bake all day, before a line of storms arrives in the evening hours.
Make sure if you have evening plans on Wednesday that you keep an eye on the forecast.

I spoke with several sources about this and confirmed these impacts are being seen and felt in storm and daily forecast coverage from the weather service to your phones to artificial intelligence services as well. All are seeing impacts because all use that data.

For those wondering yes we have seen real-world impacts from the weather balloon deductions. The ice storm up north was modeled as horrible around three-quarters of an inch, but as we know the totals were far above an inch, much higher than worst case scenarios from models.

A concern for meteorologists is the gap in the northern Great Lakes, a gap in the northeast, and a large gap in the plains, in particular, where severe storms and larger events can occur.
Some locations are closer together due to being separated by mountains or different terrain.