NOAA trackers expect Hurricane Melissa to make catastrophic landfall in Jamaica Tuesday. How to watch live cam video updates, track spaghetti models and more.

The National Hurricane Center's 11 p.m. Thursday update reported that Category 2 Hurricane Melissa is in the Atlantic Ocean, 160 miles west-northwest of Bermuda. The hurricane is moving northeast at 38 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph.

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.

According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Homer Simpson, is a rating of 1 to 5 based on a hurricane's sustained wind speed and its potential for significant loss of life and damage.

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

Hurricane Melissa is edging toward Jamaica and is set to make landfall as a historic Category 5 storm, with winds of more than 170 mph. Jamaica is bracing for what the National Hurricane Center said would be catastrophic flash flooding and landslides caused by up to 40 inches of rain in some places. The storm is due to make landfall early tomorrow.

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

Melissa was a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph as of 7 a.m. Thursday and a hurricane warning was in effect in Bermuda. Melissa was 605 miles west of Bermuda, moving north-northeast at 21 mph. There is no threat to Louisiana or the Gulf Coast.

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - By the time Hurricane Melissa exits Jamaica, nothing will be the same.

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