Tropical Storm Melissa, Hurricane

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Hurricane Melissa latest storm to hit Category 5 in days. What is rapid intensification?
Hurricane Melissa became a hurricane on Saturday, Oct. 25, surged up into a Category 4 hurricane by Sunday, and by Monday morning strengthened into the third Category 5 hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic ...

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Hurricane Melissa ranks as one of the strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall in recorded history
Hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica as possibly the island’s strongest recorded storm
Hurricane Melissa kills nearly 50 in Caribbean, heads for Bermuda
The death toll from Hurricane Melissa rose Thursday to nearly 50 people, officials said, after the ferocious storm devastated Caribbean islands and was bearing down on Bermuda.

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Hurricane Melissa leaves 49 dead in Caribbean, churns north
Despair spreads across historic seaport in Jamaica that Hurricane Melissa demolished
CNN on the ground in hard hit Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa devastates the island
CNN's David Culver describes what it's like for residents in hard hit Jamaica trying to return home after Hurricane Melissa destroyed large parts of the island.

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UK aid for Hurricane Melissa reaches Jamaica as Britons to be evacuated
First flight of Brits from storm-shattered Jamaica is set to take off as residents say 'we have no food' after Hurricane Melissa

Friday, Oct. 31 update: Latest on Category 1 Hurricane Melissa from the National Hurricane Center

Article last updated: Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, 7 a.m. ET

At Least 7 Dead as Hurricane Melissa Death Toll Rises Before ‘Storm of the Century’ Makes Landfall in Jamaica

At least seven people have died as Hurricane Melissa batters the northern Caribbean. The Category 5 storm, which is the most powerful so far this year, is expected to make landfall in Jamaica in the morning of Tuesday,
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