Track Hurricane Melissa's path
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This rare late-season Category 5 major hurricane is set to make landfall on Jamaica before impacting Cuba and Haiti in the coming days.
Hurricane Melissa is so severe that even hurricane tracking weather planes have been forced to avoid the storm.
Hurricane Melissa was no longer on tracking maps by early Nov. 1, the first day of the final month of hurricane season.
Melissa is expected to strengthen from a tropical storm into a major hurricane this weekend, bringing “life-threatening and catastrophic” flash flooding and landslides to the Caribbean.
The hot ocean temperatures and dry air are primed for a potentially explosive hurricane to erupt, with some severe weather impacts possible for Florida.