Tropical Storm Melissa stationary in Caribbean
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Tropical Storm Melissa was nearly stationary in the central Caribbean early Friday, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush past Jamaica as a powerful hurricane while unleashing catastrophic flash flooding and landslides in southern Haiti.
Hurricane Melissa on Sunday intensified into a Category 4 storm dropping torrents of “catastrophic” rain across the Caribbean with the National Hurricane Center now forecasting it to become a
Tropical Storm Melissa is set to intensify this weekend, and Jamaica and other Caribbean islands are bracing for harsh weather, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Thursday morning.
Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a Category 4 storm on Sunday, unleashing torrential rain and threatening to bring catastrophic flooding to the northern Caribbean.