Jamaica, Cuba and Hurricane Melissa
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As of 5 p.m. Monday, the National Hurricane Center found the hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. The winds were so strong inside the eyewall of the storm that a NOAA Hurricane Hunter plane made the rare choice to head back early after experiencing severe turbulence.
Hurricane Melissa is at Category 5 strength in the Caribbean and is expected to move over Jamaica on Tuesday — the first of what could be multiple landfalls for the catastrophic, slow-moving storm, forecasters said. The storm has started its turn to ...
Parts of the Caribbean began surveying the damage caused by the deadly Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5.