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Hurricane Melissa targets Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa live updates: 'Catastrophic' weather expected in Jamaica, NHC says

Melissa will likely remain at Category 5 strength by the time it makes landfall in Jamaica midday or early afternoon Tuesday. Melissa is set to bring catastrophic winds, rain, flooding and storm surge to Jamaica, where residents and tourists are sheltering in place.

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Jamaica braces for 'catastrophic' impacts from 175-mph Hurricane Melissa: Updates

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Hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica as its strongest storm in recorded history

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Hurricane Melissa could be the strongest to hit Jamaica since records began in 1851

Hurricane Melissa intensified to Category 5 strength Monday as it neared Jamaica with up to 30 inches (76 centimetres) of rain and a life-threatening storm surge.

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Latest details as Hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica

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Hurricane Melissa: Atlanta woman visiting family in Jamaica bracing for the storm

“I do feel safe. The director for the hotel made us aware that if something, some type of breach might happen in our actual room, the stairwells are built with some type of concrete,” Gordon said.

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

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Hurricane Melissa to batter Jamaica as the island's strongest storm on record in almost 2 centuries

Flying inside eye of Hurricane Melissa

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US Air Force plane provides views from inside Hurricane Melissa

The U.S. Defense Department has released dramatic footage of views inside Hurricane Melissa.

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Forecasters fly into Hurricane Melissa’s eye

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US Air Force ‘Hurricane Hunters’ fly into Melissa’s eye

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Hurricane Melissa tracked by storm hunters flying into its eye

Hurricane Melissa has strengthened into a Category 5 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.

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Hurricane Hunters Capture Inside View of Melissa’s Eye

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US plane flies through the eye of Hurricane Melissa

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Hurricane Melissa path: Where and when Melissa will make landfall

Hurricane Melissa remains a powerful Category 5 storm with winds of 175 mph that is forecast to slam into Jamaica as the worst storm the island has ever seen.Here is Melissa’s forecast path: Hurricane Melissa live updates: Storm upgraded to Category 5 on approach to JamaicaThe catastrophic and life-threatening hurricane-force winds will begin in Jamaica on Monday night.

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Hurricane Melissa latest spaghetti models, Florida forecast, path, trajectory for Tuesday

Historic, life-threatening flash flooding and landslides are expected in portions of Jamaica, southern Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the weekend, the NHC said. Peak storm surge heights could reach 9 to 13 feet above normal tide levels when the storm makes landfall, accompanied by large and powerfully destructive waves.

Carnival, Royal Caribbean reroute cruises to avoid Hurricane Melissa. See the changes.

Celebrity Beyond’s Oct. 26 itinerary will visit the Western Caribbean rather than the Eastern Caribbean, according to the cruise line’s parent company, Royal Caribbean Group. The ship will visit Costa Maya in Mexico, Belize and Roatan, Honduras.

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.