{"id":60706,"date":"2025-10-28T17:30:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/?p=60706"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:31:13","slug":"hurricane-melissa-makes-landfall-in-jamaica-causing-widespread-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/hurricane-melissa-makes-landfall-in-jamaica-causing-widespread-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica, causing widespread damage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hurricane Melissa made landfall in western Jamaica as one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, leaving widespread destruction, power outages, and communication disruptions across the island, according to officials and local media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Hurricane Center (NHC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/graphics_at3.shtml?start#contents\">said<\/a> Melissa came ashore near 1 p.m. local time on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane with estimated maximum sustained winds of 185 mph and a central pressure of 892 millibars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NHC said the storm weakened slightly after crossing the island\u2019s mountains but warned that catastrophic flash flooding, landslides, and destructive winds would continue through the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sparse footage emerging on social media showed extensive damage and flooding across western and southern Jamaica, though the full scale of the destruction remains unclear due to widespread communication outages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jamaica\u2019s power provider, JPS, said about 470,000 homes, roughly 69 percent of its customers, were without electricity. A Jamaican senator told NBC News that medical facilities in the coastal town of Black River had been destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa, now moving northeast toward Cuba, is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge, flash flooding, and damaging winds to eastern Cuba later tonight before reaching the Bahamas on Wednesday and Bermuda by Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NHC said post-storm analysis will determine where Melissa ranks among the most intense Atlantic landfalls on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Video shows major flooding along Santa Cruz Bypass in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0h6gMOeWCQ\">pic.twitter.com\/0h6gMOeWCQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZ_Intel_\/status\/1983281463278882906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Melissa made landfall in western Jamaica as one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, leaving widespread destruction, power outages, and communication disruptions across the island, according to officials and local media reports. 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