Hurricanes are classified on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which ranks storms based on their sustained wind speeds and estimates potential damage. The scale has five categories, ranging from Category 1,

Hurricane Melissa followed what has unfortunately become a pattern for major storms: It formed late in the season, intensified rapidly, then stalled near the coast.

In this episode of Kristen’s Classroom, Meteorologist Kristen Currie dives into the record books highlighting the most notable Atlantic hurricanes.

Names are retired if they are so deadly or costly that the future use of the name would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity, NOAA said.

Hours from landfall, Hurricane Melissa is also slow moving like Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which could mean catastrophic flooding.