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Meteorologist Says 'Oh My Jesus' on Live TV While Reporting on Startling Hurricane Melissa Update
As Hurricane Melissa barreled towards Jamaica, a Florida hurricane specialist’s visceral reaction underscores the severity of the storm.
It is clear that wherever the eye of the hurricane hit, there would be devastating impacts”: Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness gives an update after a monster Category 5 hurricane hit the island with violent winds and torrential rain.
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Hurricane Melissa Makes Landfall, Unleashing Devastating Force Across Jamaica
The storm has grown to one of the Atlantic's strongest on record, and is threatening to be the Atlantic's first Category 5 landfall since 2019.
After savaging Jamaica as one of the most powerful hurricanes on record, swamping Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas and skirting Bermuda, Hurricane Melissa is rapidly speeding out into the Atlantic and is expected to drop down into an extratropical cyclone later today, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center.
Parts of the Caribbean began surveying the damage caused by the deadly Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5.