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. 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. The thirteenth named storm, fifth hurricane, fourth major hurricane, and third category 5 hurricane of the 2025 atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane melissa made landfall in cuba overnight after battering jamaica as one of the most powerful landfalling storms in atlantic basin history. Melissa is now centered off the northern coast of jamaica after barreling ashore as one of the strongest atlantic hurricanes in history Hurricane melissa is expected to weaken into an extratropical cyclone on friday, oct
31, the national hurricane center said. Maps show its forecast path. 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. Melissa is now a category 1 moving through the bahamas after the storm made a historic landfall in jamaica as one of the strongest atlantic hurricanes in history. Melissa developed into a deadly category 5 hurricane monday, oct 27, and is expected to have historically catastrophic impacts on the northern caribbean.
