Jamaica, Melissa and National Hurricane Center
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Melissa wasted no time harvesting a rich reservoir of warm water in the central Caribbean south of Jamaica on Saturday to intensify at an extreme rate – from a 70 mph tropical storm Saturday morning to a 140 mph Category 4 hurricane before sunrise Sunday.
Hurricane Melissa has strengthened into a major Category 4 hurricane, with the possibility of intensifying to a Category 5 storm Sunday night.
A video shared from St. Mary Parish, Jamaica, shows heavy rain and strong winds from the first outer bands of the monster storm lashing the region on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025.
U.S. forecasters issued a hurricane warning for Jamaica on Saturday as Tropical Storm Melissa reached hurricane strength, threatening catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean.