Fox Weather Earns Praise For Intense Hurricane Melissa Coverage

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Fox Weather is earning praise for its thorough and intense live coverage of Hurricane Melissa from Jamaica.

Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, hit the Caribbean this week, destroying buildings and killing at least 50 people in total. Surprisingly, the 40-plus-year-old Weather Channel did not have someone covering the storm live in Jamaica, while the much younger Fox Weather did. The channel officially started in 2021.

Fox Weather correspondent Robert Ray and others covered the storm live, ending up in some tense situations, including Ray’s team finding that the home they were renting in St. Ann Parish had been ripped apart by the hurricane.

“That used to be a balcony,” Ray noted as he moved through the home, showing the damage the storm brought with broken glass littering the floor.

“We literally have an unraveling of this room as we speak,” Ray commented about the destruction to the home.

Some on social media praised Fox Weather for the live coverage, especially when they could not find such reporting elsewhere. Fans thanked the network for covering the storm from the source before, during, and after, with some declaring it the best of all the weather reporting options.

“Without following your channel I wouldn’t be able to know what’s going on with me, my family, my neighbors,” one resident told Ray.

@foxweather 🌀’EVERYTHING DESTROYED’: Jamaicans are reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, after it barreled through the island on Tuesday. FOX Weather Correspondent @robertrayreports spoke with residents in St. Ann Parish about how their lives were upended by the historic storm. #melissa #hurricanemelissa #jamaicans #foxweather ♬ original sound – FOX Weather

Ray noted that Fox Weather has been playing everywhere he goes in Jamaica.

“Walked into a gas station, Fox Weather was streaming , walked into a restaurant , Fox Weather was streaming. The amount of notes from locals on social is impossible to keep up with — Without exaggeration, this entire island is tuned in Fox Weather,” he said. “Everywhere we go, people are coming up to us.”

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