Hurricane Melissa, the most powerful storm of the 2025 Atlantic season, is poised to strike Jamaica Tuesday as possibly its worst storm in recorded history.

Southwestern Haiti and Turks and Caicos Islands are under both a hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning, with heavy rain and dangerous flooding expected. A tropical storm wa

Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane Monday morning and forecasters warn more strengthening is possibe.

Jamaica braces for a massive hit from Hurricane Melissa. Landfall is predicted for Tuesday morning at dawn. | Opinion

The “extremely dangerous” storm has its sights on Jamaica as of Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said. As of 1 p.m. ET, the NHC said Melissa had made landfall in New Hope, Jamaica, with 185 mph winds.

Here is coverage of Hurricane Melissa's movement over Jamaica after making landfall as an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane. This report is from Oct. 28 at noon.

You can cover yourself with a mattress and wear a helmet for added protection.” The latest readings make Melissa one of only seven hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean to ever reach below 900 mb as a central pressure and it is currently tied for the third most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic Ocean with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane.