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 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. 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 an active extratropical cyclone which was formerly an extremely powerful and destructive tropical cyclone, which made landfall in jamaica and cuba in october 2025 The thirteenth named storm, fifth hurricane, fourth major hurricane, and third category 5 hurricane of the 2025 atlantic hurricane season, melissa is currently the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2025. Hurricane melissa made landfall in cuba overnight after battering jamaica as one of the most powerful landfalling storms in atlantic basin history.
‘monstrous’ hurricane melissa crosses cuba after killing dozens in haiti, jamaica, and the dominican republic. 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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