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At least 7 dead across Caribbean

Hurricane Melissa live updates: At least 7 dead across the Caribbean as storm becomes strongest on the planet

At least 7 dead across the Caribbean as storm becomes strongest on the planet - At least seven people have already been killed as the storm batters the Caribbean with heavy winds and torrential rainfa

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Hurricane Melissa tracker: Jamaica orders residents to evacuate as tropical storm sweeps across Caribbean

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Hurricane Melissa live updates: Category 5 storm threatens Jamaica with devastation

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Hurricane Melissa strengthens as it barrels towards Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa is forecast to become a rare category five storm as it turns towards Jamaica, bringing life-threatening flash flooding and landslides.

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Life-changing impacts to Jamaica as Melissa moves closer

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‘Communities Will Not Survive’: Jamaica Prepares For Worst Ever Storm As Melissa Intensifies to Category 5

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Hurricane Melissa could be strongest to ever hit Jamaica

The authorities fear that Melissa, which has already been blamed for the deaths of four people on the island of Hispaniola, could become the strongest hurricane ever to hit Jamaica.

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Hurricane Melissa Strengthens, Catastrophic Impacts Tonight

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Hurricane Melissa strengthens as it bears down on Jamaica

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Hurricane Melissa live updates: Storm poses 'catastrophic' threat to Caribbean

If Melissa maintains its current strength, it could become the strongest hurricane to make landfall over the island since the NHC started keeping records. The strongest hurricane on record to make landfall over Jamaica was Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of 130 mph.

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Tropical Storm Melissa lumbers through the Caribbean as islands take cover from rain

Tropical Storm Melissa is lumbering through the Caribbean Sea and bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and southern Hispaniola

Tropical Storm Melissa forms in the Caribbean; Hurricane Watch issued for Haiti

A new tropical storm has formed over the central Caribbean. Melissa could strengthen later this week as it moves toward Haiti and Jamaica.

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Why Tropical Storm Melissa’s slow crawl across the Caribbean is dangerous

Melissa may drive dangerous flash flooding for Jamaica and parts of Hispaniola. Then, the storm is expected to strengthen and may become a Category 4 or 5 monster.

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Tropical Storm Melissa trudges through Caribbean as forecasters warn it will quickly intensify

Tropical Storm Melissa is plodding through the central Caribbean, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush past Jamaica as a powerful hurricane

Jamaica under hurricane warning as Melissa barely moves. Haiti could see ‘extensive’ damage

Haiti is expected to see catastrophic flash floods and landslides early next week causing “extensive infrastructural damage and potentially prolonged isolation of communities.” The southwestern peninsula of Haiti, from the border of the Dominican Republic to Port-au-Prince, was placed under a hurricane watch and a tropical-storm warning.