Hurricane Melissa became the Atlantic season’s third chart-topping Category 5 storm in the Caribbean, where it’s expected to make landfall early Tuesday in Jamaica.
Melissa’s top winds reached 160 miles (257 kilometers) per hour, threatening to bring widespread destruction to the island, as well as neighboring Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, where it will make a second landfall Wednesday. Destructive winds, a damaging storm surge and catastrophic flooding are expected to worsen Monday, the US National Hurricane Center said.
Melissa, currently about 130 miles south of Kingston, is forecast to dump as much as 30 inches (762 millimeters) ...