Item 1 of 5 Waves travel towards the coastline, as Hurricane Melissa approaches, in downtown Kingston, Jamaica, October 28, 2025. REUTERS/Octavio Jones

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Oct 28 (Reuters) – Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a category five hurricane, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest advisory.

It was one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the Atlantic basin, the NHC added.

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Hurricane Melissa made landfall in western Jamaica early Tuesday afternoon as a powerful Category 5 storm and the strongest ever to directly hit the Caribbean nation of 2.8 million people.

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