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Hurricane Melissa Strengthens to Category 4

Hurricane Melissa closes in on Jamaica as a Category 4 storm, forecast to bring catastrophic flooding

Hurricane Melissa maintained its powerful Category 4 strength on Sunday as it drifted slowly toward Jamaica, forecast to bring “catastrophic” flash flooding and landslides to the Caribbean nation.

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Hurricane Melissa threatens catastrophic flooding in Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba

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Hurricane Melissa live updates: Powerful Category 4 storm takes aim at Jamaica

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Strengthening hurricane threatens Caribbean with catastrophic floods

Melissa is now a Category 3 hurricane and is expected to rapidly intensify over the next 24 hours, threatening catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba.

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Hurricane Melissa intensifies as Caribbean braces

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Hurricane Forecasters Warn Melissa Could Be ‘Potentially Catastrophic’ for Jamaica

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Powerful Hurricane Melissa strengthens as it heads for Jamaica

The storm is moving at a worryingly slow pace -- just three miles (six kilometers) an hour -- which has meteorologists concerned that it will dump punishing rains on countries in its path for far long...

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Jamaica braces as rapidly intensifying Hurricane Melissa creeps toward island

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See Hurricane Melissa path, spaghetti models. Florida impacts?

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Melissa Grows Into A Category 3 Hurricane While Unleashing Torrential Rain In The North Caribbean

The erratic and slow-moving storm has killed at least three people in Haiti and a fourth person in the Dominican Republic, where another person remains missing.

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Hurricane warning issued for Jamaica

U.S. forecasters issued a hurricane warning for Jamaica on Saturday as Tropical Storm Melissa reached hurricane strength, threatening catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean.