Invest 98L is expected to become Tropical Storm Melissa today, Oct. 21, and some forecasters say could be the next hurricane of the 2025 season.

The tropical storm was first addressed in an advisory by the National Hurricane Center at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Tropical Storm Melissa is in the Caribbean Sea, 300 miles south of Port Au Prince Haiti. The system, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, is moving to the west at 14 mph.

A man was struck and killed by a tree branch in Wellington, New Zealand, as dangerous winds and heavy rain buffeted parts of the country.

Bitter cold, snowy winter conditions could prolong storm recovery efforts along Alaska's rural western coast, Gov. Mike Dunleavy warned.

Here's an overall rundown of the storm system that will come together right over the top of Michigan tonight into Sunday.

Western and central portions of Massachusetts get hit first with the line of showers and downpours between 6-7 am, just in time for the morning commute. The line of heavy downpours and the potential for embedded thunderstorms will then push east through mid to late morning, moving offshore with some clearing during the afternoon.

The remnant of Typhoon Halong slammed the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, an area in Western Alaska hundreds of miles from the U.S. road system. More than a thousand people are displaced.

On Thursday, the storm was trekking across the Rocky Mountains, FOX Weather reported. Through the weekend and into early next week, the storm will bring impacts to around 150 million Americans, the report said.