Largest Storm Ever Recorded

Jamaica, Hurricane Melissa and Category 5 storm

Jamaica's strongest-ever storm, Hurricane Melissa, turns to Cuba

By Sarah Morland KINGSTON (Reuters) -Hurricane Melissa churned toward Cuba's second-largest city with the force of a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday, hours after making landfall in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever cyclone on record to hit that Caribbean island nation.

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Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic storms on record

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'Absolute monster': Jamaica’s 'strongest' ever storm Hurricane Melissa breaks records as deadly system makes landfall

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Hurricane Melissa leaves a trail of devastation after tearing through the Caribbean

Hurricane Melissa brought devastation and death to the Caribbean as it tore through the region as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in more than 150 years.

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Monster Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica

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Members of Waterloo region's Caribbean association 'anxious' as Hurricane Melissa makes landfall

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Eye of Melissa moves past Jamaica after hitting as strongest hurricane in the region in 174 years

Colin Bogle, a Mercy Corps advisor based near Kingston, said most families are sheltering in place despite the government ordering evacuations in flood-prone communities.

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Hurricane leaves trail of destruction across Caribbean

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Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica

A Meteorologist Explains Hurricane Melissa

The hurricane that tore through the Caribbean this week broke records, rapidly intensifying and surprising some meteorologists.

Smithsonian Magazine

One of the Strongest Hurricanes on Record Pummeled Jamaica and Continues to Wreak Havoc in the Caribbean

Hurricane Melissa— one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded—is now off Cuba’s eastern coast, after leaving a trail of destruction across the large island and its much smaller neighbor, Jamaica.

The Santa Barbara Independent

Santa Barbara’s Direct Relief Sends Aid to Hurricane Battered Caribbean

Founded in Santa Barbara in 1948 by Holocaust refugee William Zimdin, Direct Relief began as a small, personal effort to send supplies to war-torn Europe, Morain explained. “According to our history, his butler and his partner started sending relief packages from their pantry in Montecito.”

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Jamaica, Hurricane Melissa and Category 5 storm

A Meteorologist Explains Hurricane Melissa

One of the Strongest Hurricanes on Record Pummeled Jamaica and Continues to Wreak Havoc in the Caribbean

Santa Barbara’s Direct Relief Sends Aid to Hurricane Battered Caribbean

Satellites watch as record-breaking ocean waves carry a storm's power across the sea

Melissa shatters records as strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in the Atlantic

Melissa’s deadly path: Jamaica reeling as storm hits Cuba, heads for Bahamas