US EditionHurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica as devastating Category 5 storm
- Tuesday's landfall by Hurricane Melissa ripped through Jamaica as one of the most powerful storms on record, leaving widespread destruction across the island.
- Climate scientists warn that human-driven warming is intensifying storms, with broad scientific consensus linking intensified storms like Melissa to human-driven climate change and risks to Jamaica's highland communities from slow movement.
- Sustained winds of 185 miles per hour combined with prolonged rain severely damaged several hospitals and public infrastructure, with Saint Elizabeth's coastal areas reported underwater.
- Jamaican authorities said three people died in storm-related incidents, and much of the island remained without power and communications networks were badly disrupted.
- The UN plans an airlift of 2,000 relief kits to Jamaica while Cuba evacuated about 500,000 people, and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel warned `Melissa will arrive with force, and there's great concern about what it could destroy in its wake`.
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The storm was downgraded to Category 3 on a scale of 5 after its passage over Jamaican lands
Hurricane Melissa strikes Jamaica, the most powerful storm in the island’s recorded history
Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica early Tuesday afternoon as a Category 5 storm with 185 mile per hour winds, causing widespread flooding and knocking out power to more than half of the island’s population before it moved on to Cuba.
At least 7 killed as Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica
At least seven people were killed across the northern Caribbean as Category 5 Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday on the southwestern coast of the island of Jamaica, according to local media reports.The deaths were reported in different countries,
More than 530,000 households are without electricity, there is massive damage to houses and roads, the government expects to die: the heavy hurricane »Melissa« has ravaged Jamaica. Now it is heading towards Cuba.
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