{"id":104670,"date":"2025-10-28T05:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/104670\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:46:08","slug":"live-updates-hurricane-melissa-to-make-landfall-in-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/104670\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Hurricane Melissa to make landfall in Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A storm &#8216;the likes of which we have never seen&#8217;published at 05:04 GMT<\/p>\n<p>05:04 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A hilly Jamaican countryside with the coast and a town in the distance\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/32c401eb-e01b-4871-884a-999233540330.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1021\" height=\"574\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamaica has many hills, which raises the risk of landslides<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Jamaican government has done everything it can to prepare for a storm  &#8220;the likes of which we have never seen&#8221;, the country&#8217;s Information Minister, Dana Morris Dixon, told Shaun Ley on BBC&#8217;s Newshour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With up to 40 inches of rain possible in parts of the island nation, Dixon says those are &#8220;numbers we&#8217;ve never seen in Jamaica in terms of rainfall&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And on top of that, Dixon added, October is already the country&#8217;s rainy month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The ground is already very saturated. And then to take that much rain means we&#8217;re going to have flooding, extensive flooding and landslides in the mountainous areas.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the last hurricane to directly hit Jamaica was 37 years ago, and urged people to take this one seriously. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamaica has 881 active shelters, and all of them are free, she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A storm &#8216;the likes of which we have never seen&#8217;published at 05:04 GMT 05:04 GMT Image source, Universal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-104670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}