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Latest Update: Melissa is forecast to strike Cuba as a Category 4 storm after a devastating landfall in Jamaica, resulting in a preliminary estimate of $22 billion in total damage and economic loss
> Strong second landfall expected, this time in Cuba: Melissa’s trek across western Jamaica encountered less mountainous terrain compared to eastern Jamaica, allowing a stronger storm to emerge over the warm waters of the Caribbean as it advances toward Cuba.
> Strong second landfall expected, this time in Cuba: Melissa’s trek across western Jamaica encountered less mountainous terrain compared to eastern Jamaica, allowing a stronger storm to emerge over the warm waters of the Caribbean as it advances toward Cuba.
> Record-shattering storm already: Melissa sets record with strongest landfall on record in Jamaica. Melissa ties the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane that hit the Florida Keys as the strongest hurricane upon landfall in the Atlantic basin in terms of wind speed and barometric pressure.
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