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 ...
Tropical Storm Melissa continues to linger and travel across the Caribbean, but it will soon intensify into a hurricane. Melissa is currently about 220-miles southeast