{"id":225603,"date":"2025-10-26T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T00:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225603\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T00:52:12","slug":"storm-melissa-on-track-to-reach-category-4-threatens-haiti-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225603\/","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 killed at least four people in the Caribbean on Friday as it intensifies into what\u2019s expected to be a major hurricane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Melissa\u2019s top sustained winds strengthened to 70 miles (113 kilometers) per hour with higher gusts as it drifted about 165 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, the US National Hurricane Center said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT3+shtml\/250842.shtml?\" title=\"latest advisory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">advisory<\/a> shortly before 5 a.m. New York time on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intense rains from Tropical Storm Melissa killed at least four people in the Caribbean on Friday as it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[84,60939,10047,93960,1397,5149,88828,2346,20072,467,1735,394,75575,90,16798,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-225603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-business","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","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}