LOS ANGELES, October 25, 2025 (EFE).– The Hurricane Melissa increased this Saturday night to category two in the Caribbean and is expected to cause potentially deadly flash flooding and landslides in Jamaica and portions of the Spanishreported the National Hurricane Center (CNH) of the United States.
The center or “eye” of Melissa It is located tonight about 209 kilometers southeast of Kingston (Jamaica) and about 380 kilometers southwest of Port-au-Prince (Haiti).
Los maximum sustained winds were 160 kilometers per hourwith tropical storm force winds extending about 257 kilometers from the center of the storm.
He Hurricane Melissa advances slowly heading west at 5 kilometers per houraccording to the most recent part of the CNH.
Hurricane Melissa strengthens
The forecasts of CNHbased in Miami, warn that The cyclone could strengthen rapidly in the next 24 hourss, with the possibility of it evolving into a “major hurricane by Sunday (tomorrow).”
From today until the beginning of next week they are expected “Flash and gradual catastrophic flooding, both life-threatening,” in Jamaicacurrently under hurricane warning, and portions of southern Haiti and the Dominican Republicboth under surveillance due to heavy rains.
Meteorologists hope that The cyclone turns towards the North and Northeast between Monday the 27th and Tuesday October 28.
Hurricane Melissa, over Cuba on Wednesday the 29th or Thursday the 30th
According to the predicted trajectory, Melissa’s center would move close to Jamaica during this weekend and the beginning of nextwhen it would be located near or on eastern Cuba next Wednesday or Thursday.
He Hurricane Melissa could discharge a total of 38 to 63 centimeters of rain (15 to 25 inches) in southern parts of Hispaniola and Jamaica in the coming days, with possibilities of up to about 89 centimeters (35 inches) on the Haitian peninsula of Tiburonaccording to the CNH, which warns of possible heavy rainfall in the eeast of Cuba.
The cyclone It has already caused at least three deaths in Haiti and more than 1.2 million people are without drinking water in the Dominican Republic, where it also left dozens of aqueducts out of service and caused the displacement of hundreds of people.
Con Melissa they are already 13 cyclones this season in the Atlantic: Hurricanes Erin, Gabrielle, Humberto and Imelda, and storms Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dexter, Fernand, Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo and Melissa.
Until now, Chantal It is the only one that made landfall in the US in July, leaving two dead in North Carolina.
You may be interested in:
Related
The post Hurricane Melissa increases to category 2 appeared first on Veritas News.
