The storm is also expected to produce a storm surge of up to 13 feet along Jamaica’s south coast — topped by large, battering waves — and nearly as high along the southeastern coast of Cuba, the hurr...

Hurricane Melissa is causing havoc in Jamaica as the Caribbean nation faces the strongest storm in its modern history.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) projected that 1.5mn people could be affected in Jamaica alone, more than half the country’s 2.8mn population.