Hurricane Melissa Live Tracker Updates: Clouds cover Kingston, Jamaica, ahead of the forecast arrival of Hurricane Melissa. (AP Photo)
Hurricane Melissa Jamaica LIVE Updates: At least three people have died and five others were injured in Haiti amid storm’s impact as strengthening Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds and the US National Hurricane Center expects it to reach Category 5 status on Monday. This is likely to cause a catastrophic flooding and torrential rain in the northern Caribbean, including Jamaica and Haiti. The centre of the hurricane is located 125 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica as the storm moves westward.
Tracking Melissa: The US forecasters have said that Melissa is expected to move near or over Jamaica as a major hurricane early on Tuesday, thereafter it’ll reach Cuba on Tuesday night, and the hurricane would then head across the southeastern Bahamas on Wednesday. Hurricane Melissa is expected to drop rains of up to 30 inches on Jamaica and southern Hispaniola, including Haiti and the Dominican Republic, according to the hurricane centre.
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Airports closed, shelters activated: Two of the major airports in Jamaica, the Norman Manley International Airport and the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, were closed by Sunday amid the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the Caribbean nation. An evacuation was ordered in the seaside community of Old Harbour Bay in the southern parish of St Catherine by local officials on Sunday. A Jamaican government representative said more than 650 shelters in the country are open.
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