WPBF 25 First Warning meteorologists are tracking major Hurricane Melissa. Sign up for our NewslettersAs of the 5 a.m. advisory, Melissa was located about 135 miles southwest of Kingston, Jamaica, and about 310miles southwest of Guantanamo,

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica, as a 185 mph Category 5 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) projected that 1.5mn people could be affected in Jamaica alone, more than half the country’s 2.8mn population.