Melissa rapidly intensified going into Sunday morning and is now a Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds. The US National Hurricane Center expects it to strengthen into a rare Category 5 hurricane on Monday, ahead of making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday morning.
The center of the hurricane is located about 115 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica and the storm is moving westward at just 5 mph.
Those in Jamaica need to “seek shelter now,” the NHC said Sunday morning. “Damaging winds and heavy rainfall today and on Monday will cause catastrophic and life-threatening flash flooding and numerous landslides before potentially devastating winds arrive Monday night and Tuesday morning.”
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