Melissa, Caribbean and Hurricane
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On October 28, 2025, Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 superstorm with sustained winds of 185 mph, bore down on Jamaica, threatening the island's 2.8 million residents with what officials called "catastrophic" damage.
Melissa is the fifth most intense Atlantic basin hurricane on record by pressure and the strongest to make landfall since Hurricane Dorian in 2019, according to hurricane specialist and storm surge expert Michael Lowry.
Hurricane Melissa was "moving quickly away" from Bermuda early Friday after the death toll rose to nearly 50 people, officials said. The ferocious storm has devastated Caribbean islands and is expected to become an "
Hurricane Melissa brought hurricane-force gusts to Bermuda as it sped toward the British territory, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, then hurried past. Maps show its forecast path.
The United Cajun Navy's deployment to Jamaica marks the first time the nonprofit organization has provided aid outside of the United States.
Hurricane Melissa has hit Jamaica and Cuba. Where's it going to hit next? Here's the latest forecast and spaghetti models for Category 5 storm.
The State Department has mobilized search and rescue teams and is sending much-needed aid to Caribbean islands impacted by Hurricane Melissa.
Western and central portions of Arizona could see flooding impacts from Priscilla beginning on Thursday, Oct. 9, according to a post on X from the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Flagstaff, Ariz. The impacts are expected to continue through Friday, Oct. 10, and “potentially” into the weekend.
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba overnight after battering Jamaica as one of the most powerful landfalling storms in Atlantic basin history.
Hurricane Melissa, which struck Jamaica as one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, was made four times more likely because of human-caused climate change, a rapid analysis said Wednesday. Warming caused mainly by burning fossil fuels increased both the likelihood and intensity of the devastating Category 5 hurricane,