Hurricane Melissa makes landfall as Category 5 storm
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Hurricane Melissa Heading Toward Cuba, Bahamas Following Catastrophic Strike On Jamaica
Following a Category 5 landfall in Jamaica, Melissa is set to accelerate northward with destructive winds, extreme rainfall and more. Here's the very latest.
Article last updated: Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, 10 p.m. ET
The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane season continues to be active with Hurricane Melissa now a major hurricane in the Caribbean Sea.
Hurricane Melissa continues its devastating march across the Caribbean, making landfall over western Jamaica this afternoon as a Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds near 165 mph. [...]
Hurricane Melissa continued to rage as a more than 140 mph Category 4 storm Sunday night and continued on its path toward Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas.
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The National Hurricane Center's 4 p.m. Tuesday advisory reported that Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is in the Caribbean Sea, 40 miles southeast of Negril Jamaica and 235 miles southwest of Guantanamo Cuba. With maximum sustained winds of 185 mph, the hurricane is moving to the north-northeast at 9 mph.
The Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a news release that 10 people had been arrested in a multiagency operation.