The hurricane was downgraded from a category five storm on Wednesday after it made landfall in Jamaica a day earlier as its strongest-ever storm, decimating crucial infrastructure in its wake.

The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the Category 4 was packing maximum winds of about 145 miles per hour – and would likely intensify into a top-level Category 5 storm…

Hurricane Melissa has been upgraded to a Category 5 storm, with destructive winds, storm surge, and catastrophic flooding expected to intensify in Jamaica, the National Hurricane…