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Fears were growing that Melissa's extreme winds and rains could provoke life-threatening floods in the mountainous terrain of eastern Jamaica and western Haiti.

It’s a crisp night in the rugged mountains above Los Angeles following the first rains of fall.

Joseph Vermuelen, who had lived in the park for 29 years, said he worried autumn rains would wash toxic ash onto neighboring beaches and into the ocean.

Climate change means the record rains seen this year are more likely to occur more frequently, as a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture.

There is wind, clouds form and it rains, albeit in the form of methane instead of water.