Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds Saturday evening as the US National Hurricane Center warned it would turn into a rare Category 5 hurricane by Monday afternoon.

The center of the hurricane is located 125 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica and the storm is moving at just 3 mph.

The United States mainland is not expected to be directly threatened by Melissa. Even so, rough surf and rip currents could spread along the US East Coast next week.

According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the hurricane is likely to bring life-threatening and catastrophic flash flooding and landslides to parts of Jamaica and southern Hispaniola, which is made up of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

The storm's slow movement is expected to bring a deluge

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