Intense rains from Tropical Storm Melissa have killed at least four people in the Caribbean as the storm begins to intensify.<\/p>\n
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 advisory<\/a> at 5 p.m. New York time. The storm, which has already triggered<\/a> 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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[72,12337,23169,63395,246,18447,8762,61,15706,60,63394,123,2628,4320,63396,82,63397],"class_list":{"0":"post-102557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-caribbean","10":"tag-cuba","11":"tag-dominican-republic","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-green","14":"tag-haiti","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-industries","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-jamaica","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-mexico","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-papin-sarl","23":"tag-science","24":"tag-south-carolina"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}