Category 5 Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica on October 28, 2025, bringing historic 185 mph winds and catastrophic danger to the region.
Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica on October 28, 2025, as a catastrophic Category 5 storm near New Hope with terrifying historic force.
The system arrived featuring maximum sustained winds reaching 185 mph alongside an extremely low minimum central pressure of 892 mb.
Those staggering meteorological numbers officially place Melissa directly among the strongest hurricane landfalls ever recorded across the entire Atlantic basin.
Such unprecedented storm intensity demonstrates how rapidly modern Atlantic hurricanes can escalate before landfall, leaving vulnerable coastal communities with very little time.
