Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba overnight and was churning over the country on Wednesday as a Category 2 storm as authorities in Jamaica began surveying the extensive damage left in its wake after the storm made landfall on the country's southwestern coast as the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.

Melissa reached Jamaica as an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane, the highest level on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, bringing damaging winds, catastrophic flash flooding and landslides across Jamaica on Tuesday. The storm caused widespread infrastructure damage, including power and communication outages that left hundreds of thousands of residents in the dark.

Parishes across Jamaica reported heavy floodwaters, blocked roads and fallen tr

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