Jamaica braces for Hurricane Melissa

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Hurricane Melissa closes in on Jamaica as a Category 4 storm, forecast to bring catastrophic flooding
Hurricane Melissa maintained its powerful Category 4 strength on Sunday as it drifted slowly toward Jamaica, forecast to bring “catastrophic” flash flooding and landslides to the Caribbean nation.

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Hurricane Melissa Could Be One of the Strongest Storms to Strike Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa gets stronger on path for Jamaica
Jamaicans braced for floods and damaging winds as Hurricane Melissa set to make landfall
Storm Melissa exploded in strength overnight, barrelling toward an expected landfall Tuesday on Jamaica as a major hurricane and threatening deadly floods in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba.

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Hurricane Melissa Has Rapidly Intensified To Category 4. Catastrophic Threat To Jamaica, Haiti
Storm Melissa Reaches Hurricane Strength, Threatens Catastrophic Flooding In Northern Caribbean
Melissa Strengthens Into A Category 4 Hurricane, Threatening Catastrophic Flooding In Jamaica, Haiti
Melissa was expected to drop torrential rains of up to 30 inches (760 millimeters) on Jamaica and southern Hispaniola — Haiti and the Dominican Republic — according to the hurricane center.

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Hurricane Melissa forms, could reach Category 5, heads toward Jamaica. Florida update
Melissa becomes Category 3 major hurricane, forecast to reach Category 5 near Jamaica
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Melissa expected to make landfall in Jamaica as an extremely dangerous hurricane

Hurricane Melissa is undergoing rapid intensification, strengthening to a major hurricane on Sunday. Melissa currently has maximum sustained winds of 90 mph with higher gusts.

Jamaica could face days of hurricane conditions as Melissa set to rapidly intensify in the Caribbean

Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean are staring down what could become a catastrophic, days-long assault of extreme rainfall and damaging winds with a strengthening Tropical Storm Melissa expected to become a major hurricane over some of the hottest ocean water on the planet.
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Tropical Storm Melissa expected to intensify amid growing alarms in Jamaica

Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to rapidly intensify into a major hurricane this weekend, as Jamaica and parts of the northern Caribbean gears up for the worst-case scenario.Jamaica and Haiti are at the centre of Melissa's rage,

Friday, Oct. 24 update: Latest on Tropical Storm Melissa from the National Hurricane Center

The National Hurricane Center's 8 a.m. Friday update reported that Tropical Storm Melissa is in the Caribbean Sea, 185 miles southeast of Kingston Jamaica and 260 miles southwest of Port Au Prince Haiti. Packing maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, it is tracking east-southeast at 1 mph.
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