{"id":245794,"date":"2025-10-28T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245794\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:35:07","slug":"catastrophic-winds-rain-expected-to-hit-jamaica-cuba-with-hurricane-melissa-on-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245794\/","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophic winds, rain expected to hit Jamaica, Cuba with Hurricane Melissa on its way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Nicole Mortillaro, a senior science reporter with CBC in Toronto. I&#8217;ll be providing you with some scientific context about Hurricane Melissa.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a special public advisory at 9 a.m. ET.  It was a stark reminder of just how dangerous this hurricane is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The eye of Melissa is nearing the southern coast of Jamaica and is expected to make landfall within the next few hours,&#8221; it said. &#8220;This is an extremely dangerous and a life-threatening situation. Take action now to protect your life!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Its hurricane hunter aircraft found that Melissa is actually strengthening, with maximum sustained winds of 290 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricanes are measured on the Saffir-Simpson scale, from Category 1 to Category 5. A Category 5 is the most powerful, with winds of 252 km\/h or higher. <\/p>\n<p>Another update is expected around 11 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi, I&#8217;m Nicole Mortillaro, a senior science reporter with CBC in Toronto. I&#8217;ll be providing you with some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-245794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245794","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=245794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}