Hurricane Melissa path and tracker: After making landfall in Jamaica, this is where the Category 3 storm is heading now
Hurricane Melissa continues to push north through the Carribean. These are the areas in its path.
On Tuesday Hurricane Melissa made landfall and devastated buildings and infrastructures in Jamaica. High winds, flooding and torrential rain caused officials to declare the island a disaster area.
Recovery efforts will have to wait as the island will still receive large amounts of rain on Wednesday after already suffering widespread damage to infrastructure leaving a large number of the population without electricity.
BREAKING: New video shows the catastrophic damage from Category 5 Hurricane Melissa in Black River, Jamaica.
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) October 29, 2025
So sad. pic.twitter.com/IUQRhVGSK4
Melissa’s ferocious winds and torrential rains caused severe damage on the island of Jamaica. Over 25,000 tourists are stranded on the island and residents are trying to recover from one of the largest hurricanes ever to hit the island.
5am EDT Oct 29 Key Messages for #Hurricane #Melissa:
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) October 29, 2025
The Major Hurricane is now moving across E #Cuba & will affect the #Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos today with Hurricane conditions.
Latest info at https://t.co/tW4KeGe9uJ pic.twitter.com/NX6J2VaYIH
Where will Melissa go after hitting Jamaica?
Contact with Jamaica weakened the storm to a Category 3 hurricane, but Cuba can expect similar damage to infrastructures, loss of power and serious flooding on Wednesday.
Melissa will steer away from Florida and the East Coast. However, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Bermuda can expect to feel the wrath of the storm on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
To give you a sense of how incredibly rare and unique Hurricane #MELISSA is, here are the most-intense landfalling Atlantic hurricanes that we have on record.
— Michael Ferragamo (@FerragamoWx) October 28, 2025
MELISSA is now tied with LABOR DAY 1935 at the top – something I'd never imagine to see in my lifetime. pic.twitter.com/7GOSqZRLoa
Forecasts for Cuba are not promising as more than 12 inches of rain is expected to fall and up to 20 inches in some locations on the island. Cuban officials have announced that over 735,000 people have been evacuated from their homes to avoid human loss in low-lying areas of the islands where catastrophic floods are expected.
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