Tropical Storm Melissa stationary in Caribbean
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Hurricane Melissa, the most powerful storm of the 2025 Atlantic season, made landfall in Jamaica Tuesday as possibly its worst storm in recorded history.
Melissa has 175 mph winds and is moving north-northeast at about 5 mph, with its center about 115 miles southwest of Kingston, Jamaica. The storm has a minimum central pressure of 901 mb as of the National Hurricane Center's 5 a.m. Tuesday advisory update.
Tropical Storm Melissa is set to intensify this weekend, and Jamaica and other Caribbean islands are bracing for harsh weather, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Thursday morning.