Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is creeping closer to making landfall in Jamaica. It is expected to be the strongest storm to ever hit the country. Associated Press Cuba and Caribbean News Director Christiana Mesquita joins Ana Cabrera with the latest updates and MSNBC Weather Reporter Moses Small has our forecast.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in western Jamaica on October 28 as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds, tying the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane as the strongest Atlantic landfall on record. Scientists say abnormally warm ocean temperatures helped the storm double in strength in less than a day — a sign of how global warming is intensifying extreme weather.

The storm will hit Bermuda on Thursday afternoon or evening, after Jamaica faced the devastation from one of the most powerful storms ever recorded.

Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest storm to ever hit the country. MSNBC climate reporter Moses Small unpacks the potential impact of the storm on the Caribbean.

As Hurricane Melissa barreled towards Jamaica, a Florida hurricane specialist’s visceral reaction underscores the severity of the storm.

Parts of the Caribbean began surveying the damage caused by the deadly Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5.

Hurricane Melissa barreled across Jamaica as a Category 5, leaving behind a path of devastation. Tannecia Stephenson, climate expert and physics professor at The University of The West Indies, joins Ana Cabrera to share her reaction to the strength of the storm,