US EditionMelissa grows into a Category 3 hurricane while unleashing torrential rain in the north Caribbean
Tropical Storm Melissa, the 13th named storm this season, is expected to become a major hurricane, threatening heavy rain, flooding, and wind damage in the Caribbean.
- Tropical Storm Melissa raged over the Caribbean on Friday and is expected to become a hurricane.
- Melissa has already led to three deaths in Haiti from a landslide and a falling tree amid heavy rain.
- The National Hurricane Center warned of "catastrophic" flooding with up to 25 inches of rain possible in parts of southern Hispaniola and Jamaica through Tuesday.
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Catastrophic floods feared as hurricane bears down on Jamaica
Fishing boats pulled ashore lie near the coast ahead of Hurricane Melissa, in Port Royal, Jamaica. Photo: Reuters Tropical Storm Melissa has become a hurricane and is expected to strengthen into at least Category 4 intensity, the US National Hurricane Center says.
The extreme phenomenon claimed the lives of three people in Haiti and another in the neighboring Dominican Republic, where a teenager was declared missing, according to authorities in both countries.
Category 1 Hurricane Melissa expected to "rapidly intensify"
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) - Melissa became a Category 1 Hurricane on Saturday and the National Hurricane Center expects it to become a major hurricane on Sunday. Hurricane Melissa is 130-miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica and 250-miles west-southwest of Port Au Prince, Haiti with maximum sustained winds of 90-mph. Melissa has hurricane-force winds that extend outward from the center up to 15-miles and tropical-storm-force winds extending outward up t…
They warn that Melissa could quickly strengthen in the next few hours and evolve to a major hurricane by Sunday.
Hurricane Melissa poses potential 'humanitarian crisis' for Jamaica, Haiti
Large swaths of the western Caribbean are already in the throes of, or preparing for, Hurricane Melissa, which is expected to become the strongest storm ever recorded in Jamaica. Haiti, meanwhile, has already seen three deaths since Thursday, two of which were the result of landslides in the capital of Port-au-Prince, local authorities announced. Region braces for rapid intensification Tropical Storm Melissa, which had been churning over Haiti …
Tropical storm Melissa that hit the Caribbean became a hurricane and is expected to continue to strengthen during the weekend, announced on Saturday the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States.
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