Melissa's top winds of 185 mph are the second-strongest ever reported in an Atlantic hurricane. The storm ties for the strongest storm to hit land, along with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, which hit the Florida Keys, and Hurricane Dorian in 2019, which hit the Bahamas.

Wet and windy weather is due to dominate the forecasts on Thursday, October 30, as Hurricane Melissa makes land in Jamaica and is set to make its way across the Atlantic as it blows over