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Hurricane Melissa is now strongest storm of 2025

Tropical update: Melissa strengthens into Cat. 4 hurricane in Caribbean

Hurricane Melissa 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 catastro...

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Tropical Storm Melissa forms in Caribbean, expected to strengthen into hurricane. Florida impacts?

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Tropical Storm Melissa nears hurricane strength and dumps torrential rain on Caribbean

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Melissa strengthens to a Category 5 hurricane and is forecast to make landfall in Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa intensified to Category 5 strength Monday as it neared Jamaica, where forecasters said it would unleash catastrophic flooding, multiple landslides and extensive infrastructure damag...

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Melissa Strengthens To A Category 5 Hurricane As It Nears Jamaica

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Hurricane Melissa’s Wind Speeds Doubled in Less Than a Day

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As the Atlantic Ocean warms, climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa's ferocity

The warming of the world’s oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa’s wind speed in less than 24 hours over the weekend, climate scientists said Monday.

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Hurricane Melissa slams the Caribbean. See the floods and impact on residents in photos

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Hurricane Melissa: Jamaica braces for world's strongest storm of 2025

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Hurricane Melissa live updates: Storm poses 'catastrophic' threat to Caribbean

If Melissa maintains its current strength, it could become the strongest hurricane to make landfall over the island since the NHC started keeping records. The strongest hurricane on record to make landfall over Jamaica was Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of 130 mph.

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Tropical Storm Melissa lumbers through the Caribbean as islands take cover from rain

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

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Why Tropical Storm Melissa’s slow crawl across the Caribbean is dangerous

Melissa may drive dangerous flash flooding for Jamaica and parts of Hispaniola. Then, the storm is expected to strengthen and may become a Category 4 or 5 monster.

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Tropical Storm Melissa forms, becomes the Caribbean's first named storm of the year

Tropical Storm Melissa formed over the central Caribbean Tuesday morning with sustained winds of 50 mph, becoming the 13th named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

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Tropical Storm Melissa trudges through Caribbean as forecasters warn it will quickly intensify

Tropical Storm Melissa is plodding through the central Caribbean, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush past Jamaica as a powerful hurricane

Tropical Storm Melissa forms in the Caribbean; Hurricane Watch issued for Haiti

A new tropical storm has formed over the central Caribbean. Melissa could strengthen later this week as it moves toward Haiti and Jamaica.

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Tropical Storm Melissa brings death, major flooding threat to Caribbean

Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti brace for ‘catastrophic flooding’ as storm set to strengthen into hurricane.

Jamaica under hurricane warning as Melissa barely moves. Haiti could see ‘extensive’ damage

Haiti is expected to see catastrophic flash floods and landslides early next week causing “extensive infrastructural damage and potentially prolonged isolation of communities.” The southwestern peninsula of Haiti, from the border of the Dominican Republic to Port-au-Prince, was placed under a hurricane watch and a tropical-storm warning.