Weather TODAY: Melissa is already a hurricane; very DANGEROUS for these areas

As predicted, Tropical Storm “Melissa” reached hurricane status and is potentially dangerous for several countries..

The National Meteorological Service (SMN), official climate source of the Government of Mexico, reported that “Melissa” has intensified into a Category 1 hurricane as it moves slowly over the Caribbean Sea.

“Melissa” is expected to rapidly gain intensity into a dangerous storm that will bring heavy rain to Jamaica and portions of Hispaniola.reported the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

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The center of “Melissa” was this afternoon about 230 kilometers southeast of Kingston and about 380 kilometers southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour and a slow movement towards the west-northwest at about 2 kilometers per hour, according to the most recent report from the NHC.

The forecasts of the center, based in Miami, warn that “Melissa” could strengthen rapidly in the next 24 hours, with the possibility of evolving into a “major hurricane by Sunday”.

“Catastrophic flash floods and landslides, both life-threatening,” are expected in Jamaica until early next week.currently under a hurricane warning, and portions of southern Haiti and the Dominican Republic, both under a watch for heavy rain.

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The meteorologists They expect the cyclone to turn north and northeast between Monday and Tuesday.

According to the predicted trajectory, The center of “Melissa” would move near Jamaica during this weekend and the beginning of next, when it would be located near or over eastern Cuba on Wednesday or Thursday.

“Melissa” could dump a total of 38 to 63 centimeters of rain on parts of southern Hispaniola and Jamaica in the coming dayswith possibilities of up to about 89 centimeters (35 inches) on Haiti’s Tiburon Peninsula, according to the NHC, which warns of possible heavy rainfall in eastern Cuba.

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The storm has already caused at least three deaths in Haiti and more than 1.2 million people are without drinking water in the Dominican Republicwhere the storm also left dozens of aqueducts out of service and displaced hundreds of people.

With “Melissa” there are already 13 cyclones this season in the Atlantic: Hurricanes “Erin”, “Gabrielle”, “Humberto” and “Imelda”, and the storms “Andrea”, “Barry”, “Chantal”, “Dexter”, “Fernand”, “Jerry”, “Karen”, “Lorenzo” and “Melissa”, among which Chantal was the only one to make landfall in the United States in July, leaving two dead in North Carolina.

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With information from the National Meteorological Service and EFE

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