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Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa slams Jamaica, making landfall

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Hurricane Melissa Is Category 5 With 175 MPH Winds — What’s Next?

Hurricane Melissa, as expected, explosively intensified and is now a dangerous Category 5 storm as of Monday morning.

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Where does Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa rank among the strongest storms ever?

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Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa slams Jamaica, making landfall as strongest storm in nation's history

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'Absolute monster': Jamaica’s 'strongest' ever storm Hurricane Melissa makes landfall

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica, delivering damaging winds of 295km per hour, making it the nation’s most powerful-ever storm.

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Hurricane Melissa makes landfall as Jamaica's strongest-ever storm

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Hurricane leaves trail of destruction across Caribbean

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Jamaica’s tourist resorts and ports could face a long recovery from hurricane

“Tourism has been impacted negatively,” Dennis Zulu, the United Nations resident coordinator in Jamaica, who also covers the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos, told reporters a...

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Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica

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'I haven't heard from my mum since Hurricane Melissa'

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

The intensity of a hurricane is measured by its maximum sustained wind speed, and when that speed increases by at least 35 miles per hour in a 24-hour period — or roughly two categories on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale — meteorologists call that “rapid intensification.”

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The dangerous combination that made Melissa a monster hurricane

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,