With the Caribbean, the Bahamas and now Bermuda in Melissa's rearview mirror, the next encounter with land will be in part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador from Friday night to Saturday morning. Impacts will be significant, even if the center stays just offshore, AccuWeather meteorologists say.

Melissa still has a long journey ahead, with an Eye Path® that will take it close enough to Atlantic Canada to bring a period of high winds, heavy rain and rough seas. It has transitioned into a tropical wind and rainstorm as it moved into the colder waters of the far North Atlantic Ocean.

Melissa is now moving away from Bermuda at a quickening pace. In addition to traveling into slightly cooler waters over the western Atlantic, relative to the Caribbean, the hurricane will ba

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