Hurricane melissa weakened on wednesday as it barreled through the bahamas after devastating cuba, jamaica and haiti, leaving dozens of people dead and destroying infrastructure across the region. 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. Forecasts, storm tracks, expected impacts and more track hurricane melissa with our collection of maps here. People across the northern caribbean were digging out from the destruction of hurricane melissa on thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed. Melissa has weakened slightly from category 4 to category 3, but remains an extremely dangerous major hurricane, per the hurricane center Landfall is imminent along cuba’s southeastern coastline.
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. Melissa is expected to reach southeastern cuba as an extremely dangerous major hurricane, and it could still be a major hurricane when it moves across the southeastern bahamas, the nhc said. Toll rises as hurricane melissa begins passing through the bahamas the storm killed about 20 people in haiti and flooded more than 160 homes Five bodies were found in jamaica, and one person died. Melissa was a category 5 hurricane, the highest level, when it made landfall tuesday in jamaica.
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