Hurricane Melissa made landfall as of 1 p.m. near New Hope, Jamaica . With sustained winds of 185 mph, a Category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

The National Hurricane center is deeming it as one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the Atlantic Basin and using strong language to describe the storm’s destructive power, “catastrophic winds with total structure failure are likely near the path of Melissa’s center.”

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The hurricane is forecast to move across Jamaica through the day, then track toward southeastern Cuba on Wednesday morning and the southeastern to central Bahamas by late Wednesday.

While Melissa continues its destructive path through the Caribbean, the same cold fro

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