Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Hurricane Melissa, weakened to a Category 2 storm, was moving away from the Bahamas into the southwestern Atlantic Ocean early Thursday, after battering the Caribbean over the last few days.
Melissa was making its way into the Atlantic after passing through the Bahamas on Wednesday. It made landfall early Wednesday on the southeast coast of Cuba as an "extremely dangerous hurricane," after barreling through Jamaica Tuesday, causing widespread damage.
It was located about 145 miles northeast of the central Bahamas and 755 miles southwest of Bermuda, the National Hurricane Center said in its 2 a.m. update.
It had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph and was moving north-northeast at 21 mph, forecasters said.
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