Article last updated: Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, 1 a.m. ET

The National Hurricane Center's 5 p.m. Thursday update reported that Category 2 Hurricane Melissa is in the Atlantic Ocean, 325 miles west-southwest of Bermuda. The hurricane is moving northeast at 31 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.

Parts of the Caribbean began surveying the damage caused by the deadly Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5.

When Rebecca Morris and her family learned that Hurricane Melissa was barreling toward Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, panic set in immediately. Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica on Tuesday, Oct. 28, as a catastrophic Category 5 storm.

There is no infrastructure in the region that can withstand a Category 5,” Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness said ahead of the storm's landfall.

The Bay Area's Jamaican American Community Organization and local Jamaican business owners kept close to their phones Tuesday, waiting for word from family and friends in Jamaica as the Category 5 Hurricane Melissa battered homes ,

With the most powerful of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season still wreaking havoc, an NFL owner is doing his part to help out those in need. Hurricane Melissa landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane,

Compared with other hurricane models used by the NHC, the DeepMind model is “definitely toward the front of the pack if not at the front of the pack”, says Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami. “It’s pretty impressive.”