{"id":238295,"date":"2025-10-25T02:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238295\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T02:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:35:07","slug":"storm-melissa-on-track-to-reach-category-4-threatens-haiti-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238295\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Melissa on Track to Reach Category 4, Threatens Haiti, Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Intense rains from Tropical Storm Melissa have killed at least four people in the Caribbean as the storm begins to intensify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Melissa\u2019s top winds strengthened to 65 miles (105 kilometers) per hour as it drifted 215 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, the US National Hurricane Center said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT3+shtml\/241156.shtml?\" title=\"NHC update, 5 pm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">advisory<\/a> at 5 p.m. New York time. The storm, which has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protectioncivile.gouv.ht\/post\/melissa-rapport-de-situation-2\" title=\"Click to view webpage.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">triggered<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/storm-melissa-caribbean-jamaica-haiti-dominican-republic-5532dedc71d40c74a88679ee899ffc5d\" title=\"Click to view webpage.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">deadly<\/a> landslides amid heavy rain in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is forecast to grow into a Category 4 major hurricane by Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intense rains from Tropical Storm Melissa have killed at least four people in the Caribbean as the storm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[45,49,48,20917,13423,22163,295,5460,19977,14211,25922,100,1072,3430,89971,66,517],"class_list":["post-238295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-caribbean","tag-cuba","tag-dominican-republic","tag-environment","tag-green","tag-haiti","tag-industries","tag-jamaica","tag-markets","tag-mexico","tag-new-york","tag-papin-sarl","tag-science","tag-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}