Hurricane Melissa has strengthened into a major Category 4 hurricane, with the possibility of intensifying to a Category 5 storm Sunday night, unleashing torrential rain and threatening to cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean,

Hurricane Melissa barreled into Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm with some of the fastest winds and strongest intensities ever recorded. The storm blew through the Caribbean island’s southwestern coast,

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Melissa has already killed three people in Haiti and Jamaica each and one person in the Dominican Republic. While Category 5 Hurricane Melissa remains well offshore, its outer rain bands and gusty winds have begun to lash the island.