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Hurricane Melissa is a Category 5 storm

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Is Melissa a Category 6 hurricane? What to know about the Saffir-Simpson scale

Hurricane Melissa is approaching Jamaica as a Category 5 storm with 180 mph winds.

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Melissa joins small list of Category 5 hurricanes that have made landfall

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Hurricane Melissa Live Updates: Category 5 Landfall Imminent As Jamaica Takes Cover

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Climate Factors Make Jamaica Especially Vulnerable to Hurricane Melissa

As Hurricane Melissa moves toward Jamaica, residents are preparing for catastrophic conditions when the storm makes landfall, which is expected Tuesday morning.

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Why Hurricane Melissa is so dangerous

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Catastrophic Hurricane Melissa slowly approaches Jamaica: Live Updates

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What makes Melissa such a dangerous storm

If it strikes Jamaica at close to full strength, it could eclipse all the storms the island has experienced before.

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Melissa strengthens to 180 mph winds as it nears landfall on Jamaica

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Hurricane Melissa Raking Jamaica As A Category 4 Storm With Catastrophic Flooding, Winds

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Three Category 5 Hurricanes In One Atlantic Season A First In 20 Years

These storms are the most intense that the Earth can produce. Melissa, Humberto and Erin were added to the list of rare storms in 2025.

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Hurricane Irma, fresh on the heels of Hurricane Harvey, strengthened early Tuesday into a Category 5 storm with maximum winds of 175 miles per hour, as Florida started to prepare for its potential landfall over the weekend. The latest forecasts have Irma ...

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Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest storms on record in the Atlantic. How it ranks

The Category 5 storm made landfall in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope with estimated maximum sustained winds of 185 mph and an estimated minimum central pressure of 892 millibars.

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Hurricane Humberto strengthens to Category 5, threatening Puerto Rico; another system takes aim at Carolinas

Hurricane Humberto has intensified into a Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, and a separate storm system is targeting the southeastern U.S.