Hurricane Melissa Strengthens to Category 4
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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
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.
Hurricane Melissa is forecast to become a major hurricane on Sunday with catastrophic flash flooding and landslides in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica.
Melissa is expected to significantly strengthen by late Friday and over the weekend, when the storm could become a hurricane as early as Saturday.
Tropical Storm Melissa is lumbering through the Caribbean Sea and bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and southern Hispaniola