O n Oct. 28, 2025 Hurricane Melissa— one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record —slammed into the west coast of Jamaica. It brought 185 mph peak winds, destroying 90% of homes in the Black River area and leaving at least 50 dead —a count that will surely rise as search and rescue continues.

It comes as Hurricane Melissa ramps up to a Category 5 tropical storm slated to crash into the southeastern shores of Jamaica, which is bracing for the potential largest storm to hit the island in recent history. Forecasters have warned that Jamaica will be slammed with catastrophic flooding, multiple landslides and heavy infrastructure damage.

Hurricane Melissa exploded Monday into a Category 5 monster, threatening more than 25 million people across Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. The powerful storm is expected to make landfall on Jamaica Tuesday morning, though its outer bands had already begun unleashing fierce winds and rain on the island.

September 10 has historically been a calamitous date for the Sarasota, Florida area. Two major hurricanes, Donna in 1960 and Irma in 2017, made landfall or significantly impacted the region on this date. Other notable September 10 events include a 6.0 ...

The southern peninsula of Haiti remains under a hurricane watch, and all of Jamaica is under a hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning. Both countries are forecast to see a tremendous amount of rain, enough to potentially spawn life-threatening mudslides and flash flooding in Haiti and the island of Hispaniola.

The hurricane that tore through the Caribbean this week broke records, rapidly intensifying and surprising some meteorologists.

Hurricane Melissa could bring some impacts to Bermuda after slamming parts of the Caribbean with heavy rain and damaging winds. I