The Caribbean is bracing for Hurricane Melissa, one of the highly effective to ever strike the area. Melissa started as a cluster of thunderstorms off the coast of west Africa, which travelled west and developed right into a despair, reaching tropical storm standing to the north of Venezuela on 21 October. Speedy intensification over the weekend strengthened Melissa to class 4 because it slowly meandered west by way of the Caribbean Sea.
Melissa is anticipated to succeed in class 5 depth on Monday night time, veering north-east in the direction of Jamaica earlier than making landfall on Tuesday by about noon, with peak winds of 160mph (257km/h), which might make it the strongest of solely 5 hurricanes ever recorded to hit Jamaica straight. The newest, and prior to now probably the most highly effective, was Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, which introduced gusts of 130mph.
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