Conditions remain quiet in the tropics, with no activity expected for the next seven days. But don't let your guard down yet.

Influencers face backlash for posting TikTok and Instagram videos while traveling to Jamaica during Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, with critics calling their content insensitive.

However, scientists said, the world is measurably warmer than it was a century ago. Hurricane hotspots like the Caribbean Sea and parts of the Atlantic Ocean are hotter, giving Melissa additional fuel to become powerful. That warmer water also makes for a more humid atmosphere; storms can more easily wring more rain out of wetter air.

Melissa’s terrifying trip through the Caribbean also piled on evidence of the influence of a warming ocean on an evolving hurricane landscape.

Jamaican music superstar Sean Paul has said the scale of the effort required to help people in the country is "overwhelming" after Hurricane Melissa devastated parts of the island last week. The Grammy-winning reggae singer said the category five storm was "very frightening, especially for my young kids".

"Historically, storms have been named for a long time, but haphazardly and after the fact. For example, an Atlantic storm that ripped the mast off a boat named Antje would become known as Antje's hurricane. As weather forecasting developed as a science, storms were identified by their latitude-longitude," the WMO website reads, in part.

The Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 and lasts through November 30. There have been 13 named storms so far this season.

A newlywed who was in Jamaica on his honeymoon when Hurricane Melissa struck said the devastation "completely took the life out of the island". Rob Cuff, a lorry driver from Snedshill in Shropshire, said he and his wife, Leah, 28, spent time comforting hotel staff who had lost their homes on 28 October.