Melissa Is Now a Category 4 Hurricane and Could Intensify to a Category 5 as It Nears Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa is now a Category 5 storm as it nears landfall in Jamaica

(CNN) — Melissa rapidly intensified over the weekend and is now a rare Category 5 hurricane with 160 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center expects it to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday morning as the strongest hurricane on record to strike the island. The center of the hurricane is located about 130 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica and the storm is moving westward at just 3 mph. Those in Jamaica need to “seek shelter now,” the NHC said S…

Kingston, Jamaica Braces for Monster Hurricane Melissa

KINGSTON, JAMAICA (VINnews)— Workers and residents in Kingston, Jamaica, are urgently preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Melissa, a powerful storm expected to make landfall as a Category 4 or 5 hurricane, according to FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray. Ray, reporting from the capital city, said residents are racing to secure their homes and businesses […]

Hurricane Melissa 'rapidly intensifies' as holiday spot braces for 25in of rain

The US National Hurricane Center has said the storm would be upgraded to Category 5 after it hit Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Melissa could make landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane

Hurricane Melissa, a powerful Category 4 storm, has resumed strengthening and could make landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane late Monday or early Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). “Hurricane Melissa has intensified again,” the NHC said in an update at 5 p.m. ET on Sunday, adding that satellite and reconnaissance data show a small, clear eye and an increasingly organized inner core. “Melissa could make landfall …

Hurricane Melissa strengthens into a Category 4, could become Cat 5

Kingston, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a major Category 4 hurricane, with the possibility of intensifying to a Category 5 storm Sunday night, unleashing torrential rain and threatening to cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.