16m agoTue 28 Oct 2025 at 3:48pmWhat we know
As Hurricane Melissa inches its way towards the Jamaican coast, here’s the situation as it stands:
The hurricane is currently a Category Five, packing wind gusts of up to 300 kilometres an hour.Authorities are anticipating widespread devastation in Jamaica.Storm surges of up to four metres are expected alongside rainfall totals of 700 millimetres, with fears that could cause “catastrophic flash flooding and landslides”.Hurricane Melissa is being fuelled by warm waters in the Caribbean.The Red Cross says up to 1.5 million people in Jamaica are expected to be impacted by the storm.
16m agoTue 28 Oct 2025 at 3:48pm
Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of Hurricane Melissa
We’re online this morning to cover what authorities are describing as the “storm of the century”, which is just hours away from making landfall in Jamaica as a Category Five system.
According to the US National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Melissa was packing maximum sustained winds of 290 kilometres an hour. That’s not accounting for even faster wind gusts.
We’ll have the latest updates as they come to hand. Stay with us.