Slow-moving giant about to make landfall and will linger over the island before slamming into Cuba
Hurricane Melissa – latest updates
Hurricane Melissa is close to hitting Jamaica as a catastrophic category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began in 1851.
The slow-moving giant will make landfall on Tuesday afternoon local time and linger over the island, moving diagonally through it until heading on to slam into Cuba, with impacts also expected in Haiti and the Bahamas.
Melissa is particularly dangerous as it intensified extremely quickly and is moving at the sluggish speed of a person running, meaning it will hover over Jamaica for longer, compounding the damage.
