October 28, 2025
Hurricane Melissa begins to make landfall in Jamaica as a ‘catastrophic’ Category 5 storm
Palm trees sway in the wind as Hurricane Melissa approaches, in Port Royal, Jamaica, October 27, 2025. — Reuters Jamaicans, Cubans, prepare for immediate impact. Across the Caribbean, hundreds of thousands are being evacuated. Four deaths were reported in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Hurricane Melissa was packing sustained winds of up to 175 mph (282 km/h) on Monday afternoon as the slow-moving Category 5 storm made landfall in Jamaica in what could be the largest on record for the Caribbean island. As of 2 p.m. (1800 GMT), Melissa was a “catastrophic” storm, the strongest possible on the Saffir-Simpson scale,












