Melissa made landfall tuesday in jamaica with top winds of 185 mph (295 kph), one of the strongest atlantic hurricanes on record, before weakening and moving on to cuba, but even countries. Hurricane melissa left dozens dead and widespread destruction across cuba, jamaica and haiti on wednesday, knocking out power and forcing residents from their homes in inundated towns, and it continues to pass through the bahamas as a weakened storm. Hurricane melissa tore a path of destruction across jamaica after the storm made landfall on tuesday as a category 5 hurricane, one of the most powerful landfalls on record in the atlantic basin. Hurricane melissa is expected to weaken into an extratropical cyclone on friday, oct 31, the national hurricane center said. Hurricane melissa caused at least 67 deaths, up to $4 billion in insured losses in jamaica and tens of billions of dollars of overall damage throughout the caribbean, authorities in the storm.
Hurricane melissa made landfall in jamaica on tuesday as a category 5 storm before lashing cuba and the bahamas The hurricane devastated jamaica to levels never seen before, the top u.n. Maps show its forecast path. Melissa developed into a deadly category 5 hurricane monday, oct 27, and is expected to have historically catastrophic impacts on the northern caribbean.
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