{"id":229730,"date":"2025-10-28T08:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229730\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:24:07","slug":"live-updates-hurricane-melissa-to-make-landfall-in-jamaica-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229730\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Hurricane Melissa to make landfall in Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the latest on the hurricane?published at 07:21 GMT<\/p>\n<p>07:21 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/03e89f2f-f853-467b-aec0-12992a921be0.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Elizabeth Rizzini<br \/>Lead weather presenter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A satellite view shows Tropical Storm Melissa, over the Caribbean Sea, October 27, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a handout video.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10a5b837-407f-466e-8d43-71c70f0a1bc9.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3623\" height=\"2039\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, CSUImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A satellite view shows Tropical Storm Melissa over the Caribbean Sea<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The eye wall is still to the south of Jamaica and much of the island is already under tropical storm conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The storm is very slow moving at only 2mph (3.2km\/h) in a north-easterly direction.  Now that it has turned northwards, it could speed up a little.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The current sustained wind speeds are 175mph (282km\/h) with higher gusts. It is an extremely dangerous category five hurricane. It&#8217;s the strongest storm on Earth so far this year in terms of wind speeds and central pressure, which is currently just 901 millibars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Landfall is expected later today in Jamaica and catastrophic and life-threatening hurricane-force winds are expected to begin this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be another 15 to 30 inches of rainfall for Jamaica with a storm surge of up to 13ft near landfall on the south coast with large and destructive waves. On the north-west coast, near Montego Bay, there could be a 2ft to 4ft storm surge. We are expecting landslides and catastrophic flooding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Haiti, tropical storm conditions will begin later today too, with 6-12in of rainfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The storm will move northwards very slowly bringing further rain and will then make landfall again in south-eastern Cuba, still as a major hurricane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swells generated by Melissa are expected to affect portions of Hispaniola, Jamaica, eastern Cuba, and the Cayman Islands during the next several days, likely causing life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These swells will reach the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Bermuda later this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the latest on the hurricane?published at 07:21 GMT 07:21 GMT Elizabeth RizziniLead weather presenter Image source, CSUImage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-229730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229730","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=229730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}