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Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba overnight as a Category 3 storm severely flooding streets and damaging infrastructure, and was swirling over the Caribbean island as of Wednesday morning, Oct. 29.
Meanwhile, about 1,000 miles south in Jamaica, officials continued surveying extensive damage left from Melissa's fury one day prior. The storm first slammed into the country's shoreline on Tuesday, Oct. 28, as a Category 5 hurricane leaving widespread flooding, hundreds of thousands without power and at least one fatality there.
The cyclone made landfall at about 3:10 a.m. ET in the Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba, the National Hurricane Center reported. As of 8 a.m. ET, its maximum sustained winds were 105 mph, making it a Category 2 storm as it moved over eastern Cuba.
So far this year, the storm marks the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.
