Hurricane Melissa is making landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to hit the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago.

Hurricane Melissa, which is stronger than Hurricane Katrina, is set to bring catastrophic winds, flash flooding and high storm surges to the island of Jamaica.

Hurricane Melissa, the most powerful storm of the 2025 Atlantic season, made landfall in Jamaica Tuesday as possibly its worst storm in recorded history.

Fox Weather correspondent Robert Ray reports from St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, as Hurricane Melissa, a powerful Category 5 storm, closes in on the island.

FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray is in Jamaica ahead of Hurricane Melissa's landfall expected Tuesday morning. The Category 5 hurricane is expected to deliver deadly storm surge, life-threatening and catastrophic flash flooding and landslides and destructive winds.

The hurricane that tore through the Caribbean this week broke records, rapidly intensifying and surprising some meteorologists.

Melissa is now a Category 1 moving through the Bahamas after the storm made a historic landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.