Watch live video of Hurricane Melissa damage in Jamaica, Cuba Christopher Cann, USA TODAYOctober 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM 0 Over the last 24 hours, Hurricane Melissa barreled across Jamaica before slamming into Cuba overnight, bringing damaging winds, flash flooding and landslides to both countries.
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Christopher Cann, USA TODAYOctober 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Over the last 24 hours, Hurricane Melissa barreled across Jamaica before slamming into Cuba overnight, bringing damaging winds, flash flooding and landslides to both countries.
The storm made landfall along the southern coast of Jamaica as a Category 5, making it the most powerful hurricane on record to cross the island nation. Melissa caused widespread infrastructure damage, including power and communication outages that left hundreds of thousands of residents in the dark.
In Cuba, the storm made landfall as a Category 3 storm and was still crossing the country on the morning of Oct. 29, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center.
Melissa has strengthened into a hurricane in the Caribbean on Oct. 25 and could soon rapidly intensify into a monstrous Category 4 or 5 storm, bringing perilous threats of rain, winds and storm surge to northern Caribbean islands.A drone view shows a vehicle driving along a flooded street amid rain caused by Tropical Storm Melissa, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, October 24, 2025.
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1 / 23Hurricane Melissa slams the Caribbean. See the floods and impact on residents in photosA resident stands at a flooded section of Port Royal in Kingston on Oct. 27, 2025. Hurricane Melissa threatened Jamaica with potentially deadly rains after rapidly intensifying into a top-level Category 5 storm, as residents scrambled for shelter from what could be the island's most violent weather on record. Melissa has already been blamed for at least four deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and was set to unleash torrential rains on parts of Jamaica in a direct hit on the Caribbean island.
Ahead of the storm's eyewall reaching the southern coast of Cuba, the hurricane center described Melissa as an "extremely dangerous major hurricane."
More than 735,000 people were evacuated in Cuba by Tuesday night, Oct. 28, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said in a social media post. In the Bahamas, next in Melissa's path to the northeast, the government ordered evacuations of residents in southern portions of that archipelago.
Contributing: Phaedra Trethan, Dinah Voyles Pulver, Thao Nguyen
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