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":99639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[138,17092,28277,72958,273,2518,63976,648,72957,220,6820,1767,111,139,69,43051,147,2146],"class_list":{"0":"post-99638","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-industries","16":"tag-jamaica","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-mexico","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-papin-sarl","24":"tag-science","25":"tag-south-carolina"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99638","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=99638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}