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The strongest storm of 2025 made landfall in Jamaica yesterday.

Let's look at what happened.

Over the weekend, Hurricane Melissa ballooned to a category four, with meteorologists' warning

of quote, catastrophic flooding in Jamaica and parts of

Cuba and Haiti. Jamaican officials issued mandatory evacuations to about 28,000 residents Monday,

as the storm grew, saying, quote, no infrastructure in the region can withstand a category five.

Melissa crawled to the coast, giving residents more time to board up buildings and move inland,

though at the time of landfall, less than 6,000 people had evacuated to shelters.

Yesterday afternoon, Melissa came ashore over southwestern Jamaica as a category five, bringing record

rainfall, winds up to 185 miles per hour, and up to 13 feet of storm surge, which is coastal

flooding from rising tides. So, what's been the impact so far? As of recording, at least seven people across the Caribbean have died,

and hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans are without power

in the wake of the most severe storm in the island's recorded history.

Melissa weakened to a category four storm while passing over Jamaica's mountains,

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