Melissa's threat to Jamaica grows
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Hurricane Melissa on Sunday intensified into a Category 4 storm dropping torrents of “catastrophic” rain across the Caribbean with the National Hurricane Center now forecasting it to become a
Hurricane Melissa is forecast to become a major hurricane on Sunday with catastrophic flash flooding and landslides in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica.
U.S. forecasters issued a hurricane warning for Jamaica on Saturday as Tropical Storm Melissa reached hurricane strength, threatening catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean.
Tropical Storm Melissa is forecast to become a major Category 4 hurricane as its slowly churns in the Caribbean Sea. Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Haiti on alert for heavy rainfall, flooding, and damaging winds, according to the National Hurricane Season. Melissa is the 13th named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends November 30.
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