Jamaica tallies losses from Hurricane Melissa
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The 2025 hurricane season appears to be closing out quietly and politely, but Florida can expect an unseasonally chilly few days ahead.
Melissa was one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall and brought destructive weather to Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba, causing dozens of deaths across the Caribbean.
The storm will hit Bermuda on Thursday afternoon or evening, after Jamaica faced the devastation from one of the most powerful storms ever recorded.
The heaps of twisted building material and water damaged equipment is being cleared as Jamaicans recover from Hurricane Melissa.
The storm was one of the strongest to ever form in the Atlantic, with winds reaching 185 mph shortly before making landfall in Jamaica.
Will it rain today? Atlantic hurricane season is June 1 to Nov. 30, 2025, with most tropical storm activity between August and October in Florida.
University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) is advising that in-person and online classes will resume on Monday, November 10, at the Main Campus, Papine, and the Arthur Wint Drive and Slipe Pen Road campuses in Kingston,
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Jamaica’s peak tourism season is one month away, and officials in the hurricane-ravaged nation are rushing to rebuild from the catastrophic Category 5 storm that shredded the island’s western region.