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 now centered off the northern coast of jamaica after barreling ashore as one of the strongest atlantic hurricanes in history People across the northern caribbean were digging out from the destruction of hurricane melissa on thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed. Melissa tore through the caribbean as one of the most powerful storms in history, slamming jamaica as a category 5 hurricane earlier this week. Melissa developed into a deadly category 5 hurricane monday, oct 27, and is expected to have historically catastrophic impacts on the northern caribbean.
This graphic shows an approximate representation of coastal areas under a hurricane warning (red), hurricane watch (pink), tropical storm warning (blue) and tropical storm watch (yellow) The orange circle indicates the current position of the center of the tropical cyclone The black line and dots show the national hurricane center (nhc) forecast track of the center at the. The thirteenth named storm, fifth hurricane, fourth major hurricane, and third category 5 hurricane of the 2025 atlantic hurricane season.
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