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Hurricane Melissa to hit Jamaica

Watch live video as Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica

The Category 5 storm brings devastating wind and rain to the Caribbean island nation. Here's the hurricane's up-to-the-minute impact.

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Hurricane Melissa live updates: ‘Extremely dangerous’ Category 5 storm makes landfall in Jamaica

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Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica

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Jamaica's PM to citizens as Melissa nears: 'You have been warned'

Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Monday (October 27) said citizens should not "venture outside unnecessarily" as Hurricane Melissa, now a powerful Category 5 storm packing sustained winds of...

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Strongest storm of the year closes in on Jamaica with warnings of 'catastrophic' conditions

Critical power infrastructure in Kingston is down, and all I can hear is the hum of generators.

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

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Jamaica orders evacuation of capital as major hurricane approaches

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Hurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 strength. No impact expected for Ohio Valley

Hurricane Melissa reached Category 5 status near Jamaica but won't impact the Ohio Valley. Get live updates and tracking information.

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Relief groups mobilizing to send critical emergency supplies to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa

Hurricane Melissa is about to make landfall in Jamaica. Marlon Hill, Lead Relief Mobilizer for the south Florida organization Caribbean Strong, joins Chris Jansing to share more on how they are already preparing to send critical supplies to the country in the aftermath of the storm.

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Carnival, Royal Caribbean reroute cruises to avoid Hurricane Melissa. See the changes.

Celebrity Beyond’s Oct. 26 itinerary will visit the Western Caribbean rather than the Eastern Caribbean, according to the cruise line’s parent company, Royal Caribbean Group. The ship will visit Costa Maya in Mexico, Belize and Roatan, Honduras.

Hurricane Melissa latest spaghetti models, Florida forecast, path, trajectory for Tuesday

Historic, life-threatening flash flooding and landslides are expected in portions of Jamaica, southern Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the weekend, the NHC said. Peak storm surge heights could reach 9 to 13 feet above normal tide levels when the storm makes landfall, accompanied by large and powerfully destructive waves.

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Why Hurricane Melissa's intensity and slow-moving speed are a recipe for disaster

Jamaica is expected to be in the storm's eyewall, which refers to the band of dense clouds surrounding the eye of the hurricane. The eyewall generally produces the fiercest winds and heaviest rainfall, according to Deanna Hence, a professor of climate, meteorology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Hurricane Melissa turns dangerous in the Caribbean as Sarasota watches closely

Melissa strengthened into a deadly Category 5 hurricane Monday with catastrophic impacts expected across the Caribbean, similar to Sarasota last year.

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Melissa is one of the most powerful hurricanes ever. Here’s how it ranks.

Hurricane Melissa is expected to crash into Jamaica with a strength reserved for a tiny percentage of Atlantic hurricanes. A hurricane reaching Category 4 or 5 strength is quite a feat in itself. The two categories combined make up about 17 percent of all hurricanes in recorded history.