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Eric Holthaus
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Meteorologist & climate journalist. Dad. Birder. Minnesotan. Optimistic to a fault.

Science news with attitude for The Guardian. Author of The Future Earth.

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Hurricane Melissa will make landfall in Jamaica in a few hours as one of the two strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall anywhere in the Atlantic Basin -- on par with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane in south Florida.

Just horrific. The stuff of nightmares.
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is just about as perfect a hurricane as you'll ever see in the Atlantic.

Category 5 Humberto:
September 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Check out the incredible lightning storm over northeast Iowa that my 8 year old recorded this weekend!
August 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM