{"id":247005,"date":"2025-10-28T19:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247005\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:42:13","slug":"hurricane-melissa-makes-landfall-in-jamaica-winds-over-320km-hr-expected-nation-braces-for-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247005\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica; Winds over 320km\/hr expected; Nation braces for devastation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 3pm ET (6am AEDT), Hurricane Melissa has sustained winds of over 257km\/hr, according to the US National Hurricane Centre, CNN said.<\/p>\n<p>By the centre&#8217;s standards, Category 5 hurricanes have winds of at least 157 miles an hour &#8211; 252.6km\/hr &#8211; so Melissa is coming close to dropping down the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>But the danger is still very present for Jamaica despite winds falling 8km\/hr in the past hour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0b643503-0707-48e5-9de9-eca3b6a18cae.jpeg\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The hurricane centre issued a warning as the eye of the storm passed over the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION! Do not leave your shelter as the eye passes over, as winds will rapidly increase on the other side of the eye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The eye of a hurricane is relatively calm, which can lure people into thinking the storm has passed, when really, they&#8217;re just halfway through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of 3pm ET (6am AEDT), Hurricane Melissa has sustained winds of over 257km\/hr, according to the US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-247005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}