Hurricane Melissa has reached category 5 status as it crawls towards Jamaica. Conditions in Jamaica have already deteriorated in advance of Melissa’s landfall on Tuesday morning.
At 5 am Monday, Melissa was about 130 miles south-southwest of Kingston, Jamaica and 315 miles south-southwest of Guantanamo, Cuba. Maximum sustained winds were 160 miles per hour, and Melissa was moving west at 3 miles per hour.
There is now a hurricane watch for the central and southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos. This is in addition to the hurricane warnings for Jamaica and eastern Cuba. There are also tropical storm warnings for all of Haiti and the Cuban province of Las Tunas.
Melissa is expected to cause catastrophic damage to Jamaica, cross eastern Cuba as a major hurricane on Wednesday, and move through portions of the Bahamas on Wednesday into early Thursday.
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