BREAKING NEWS Large Hurricane MELISSA CATEGORY 5 forming

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BREAKING NEWS Large Hurricane MELISSA CATEGORY 5 forming
September 21, 2026 – by Mike – Leave a Comment

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on October 28, 2025, as a Category 5 storm. It struck near New Hope on the island’s southwest coast, bringing extreme danger to the regio…
The storm arrived with estimated sustained winds of 185 mph and a minimum central pressure of 892 mb. Those numbers place Melissa among the strongest hurricane landfalls ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.

By wind speed, Melissa tied with storms such as Hurricane Dorian in 2019 and the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane. Its pressure also matched the 1935 hurricane for the lowest recorded landfall pressure in the Atlantic.