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 made landfall in cuba overnight after battering jamaica as one of the most powerful landfalling storms in atlantic basin history. Hurricane melissa is expected to weaken into an extratropical cyclone on friday, oct 31, the national hurricane center said. Melissa was a category 5 hurricane, the highest level, when it made landfall tuesday in jamaica. Maps show its forecast path.
Melissa is now centered off the northern coast of jamaica after barreling ashore as one of the strongest atlantic hurricanes in history The death toll is growing as hurricane melissa crosses cuba and heads for the bahamas a day after making landfall in jamaica as one of the region’s strongest storms on record. Hurricane melissa intensified into a category 5 storm monday as it drew closer to jamaica, where forecasters expected it to unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and widespread damage
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