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The hurricane weakened to a Category 4 as it carved a path of destruction across Jamaica. Limited communications have left officials with only partial reports as they seek to assess the scale of the damage.
Here’s the latest.
Hurricane Melissa slowly cut a soaking and destructive path across Jamaica on Tuesday after making landfall as one of the strongest Category 5 storms on record.
The hours-long overland passage sapped some of the storm’s strength, dropping it to a Category 4 by the time it began moving off Jamaica’s north coast in the afternoon, on a churning path expected to take it to Cuba last Tuesday or early Wednesday. Forecasts of Melissa’s path after that take it toward the Bahamas later on Wednesday.
Melissa has brought heavy rainfall throughout the Caribbean since late last week. The storm did not make landfall on Haiti, but it has nevertheless dropped a significant amount of rain there, and forecasters warned that flash flooding and landslides are expected for the next day. Officials there have announced that schools will be closed on Wednesday and a workers will be asked to stay home.
Jamaica’s health care system is facing “one of its most severe crises in recent memory” after Hurricane Melissa battered the island’s hospitals and clinics, according to a memo by the local response team of the Pan American Health Organization.
The storm’s advance has unleashed flood warnings in multiple hospitals, threatening to overwhelm them and disrupt essential services.
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Kingston, Jamaica, on Tuesday, as Hurricane Melissa approaches.Credit…Octavio Jones/Reuters
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