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Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica

Will Hurricane Melissa impact South Florida as it heads toward Jamaica, Cuba? See its projected path.

Hurricane Melissa has formed in the Caribbean, making it the 13th named storm in the Atlantic this year, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. Monday morning, it became a powerful Category 5 hurricane.

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FIRST ALERT: Category 5 hurricane Melissa bring devestating impacts to Jamaica, Cuba

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Hurricane Melissa latest track update: Category 5 storm will soon hit Jamaica, Cuba

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Three dead in Jamaica as strongest storm of the year Hurricane Melissa approaches island

Hurricanes need warm waters to provide their fuel, and higher heat on the sea surface has been injecting extra energy into the storm system.

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Flooding threat in Jamaica and Haiti from Hurricane Melissa

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Jamaica's residents, tourists brace for powerful hurricane

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Hurricane Melissa tracker: Jamaica orders residents to evacuate as tropical storm sweeps across Caribbean

“Many of these communities will not survive this flooding,” local government minister, Desmond McKenzie, said at a press conference on Monday.

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AUDIO: Hurricane approaches Jamaica with winds of 270kph

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Hurricane Melissa: Jamaica braces for world's strongest storm of 2025

Cuba braces for Hurricane Melissa amid health emergency and economic collapse

Cuba is bracing for Hurricane Melissa as it heads towards Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second-largest city, threatening catastrophic damage at a time the government is already failing to provide the most basic services and thousands are sick because of the rise of mosquito-transmitted diseases and other illnesses linked to poor sanitary conditions.

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Navy evacuates nearly 900 from Cuba as Hurricane Melissa approaches

The U.S. Navy relocated hundreds of nonessential personnel from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Florida over the weekend.

Why Hurricane Melissa's intensity and slow-moving speed are a recipe for disaster

Jamaica is expected to be in the storm's eyewall, which refers to the band of dense clouds surrounding the eye of the hurricane. The eyewall generally produces the fiercest winds and heaviest rainfall, according to Deanna Hence, a professor of climate, meteorology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Hurricane forecast: Melissa a Cat. 5 monster in the making with Florida dodging the bullet

We will be very fortunate if Melissa does not cause a humanitarian disaster, even as Florida is again in the clear of a strange 2025 hurricane season.