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Fox Weather is earning praise for its thorough and intense live coverage of Hurricane Melissa from Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, hit the Caribbean this week, destroying buildings and ...

Melissa will pass through the Bahamas on Wednesday afternoon. Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane -- one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica as a fearsome Category 5 storm, bringing heavy floodwaters across the country's southwest and catastrophic winds that tore roofs off buildings. The ...

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Hurricane Melissa is about to make landfall in Jamaica Oct. 28 as a dangerous Category 5 hurricane with catastrophic winds, flash flooding, and dangerous storm surge, according to the National ...

Editor's note: This page summarizes developments on Hurricane Melissa for Tuesday, Oct. 28. For the latest news on Hurricane Melissa, visit USA TODAY's coverage for Wednesday, Oct. 29. The center of ...

With maximum sustained winds of 185 miles per hour as it batters the Caribbean island of Jamaica on Tuesday, Hurricane Melissa is a beast of a storm. Satellite and other images starkly illustrate ...