Hurricane Melissa live updates: category 3 storm nears Cuba; ‘extensive’ damage in parts of Jamaica

<p>Reports of families trapped by floodwaters in Jamaica, as hurricane moves on to threaten Cuba’s second-largest city</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/28/hurricane-melissa-makes-landfall-in-jamaica">Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/28/hurricane-melissa-a-visual-guide-to-the-strongest-storm-to-hit-jamaica-in-almost-two-centuries">Visual guide to Hurricane Melissa</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/oct/27/tell-us-if-youve-been-affected-by-hurricane-melissa">Tell us if you’ve been affected</a></p></li></ul><p>The National Hurricane Center has, once again, <a href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/290551.shtml">downgraded</a> Melissa to “a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale,” but said it is still “an extremely dangerous major hurricane.”</p><p>The centre warned the hurricane could “cause life-threatening and potentially catastrophic flash flooding with numerous landslides” as it approaches Cuba.</p><p>Melissa is expected to make landfall soon along the southern coast of eastern Cuba as an extremely dangerous major hurricane.</p><p>On the forecast track, the core of Melissa is expected to move over eastern Cuba through this morning, move across the southeastern or central Bahamas later today, and approach Bermuda Thursday and Thursday night.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/29/hurricane-melissa-live-updates-strengthens-cuba-extensive-damage-parts-of-jamaica">Continue reading...</a>