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 made landfall in cuba overnight after battering jamaica as one of the most powerful landfalling storms in atlantic basin history. 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. The thirteenth named storm, fifth hurricane, fourth major hurricane, and third category 5 hurricane of the 2025 atlantic hurricane season. Melissa developed into a deadly category 5 hurricane monday, oct 27, and is expected to have historically catastrophic impacts on the northern caribbean.
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 Maps show its forecast path.
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