Article last updated: Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, 7 a.m. ET

The National Hurricane Center's 11 p.m. Thursday update reported that Category 2 Hurricane Melissa is in the Atlantic Ocean, 160 miles west-northwest of Bermuda. The hurricane is moving northeast at 38 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph.

Officials have reported deaths in multiple areas as Hurricane Melissa slammed parts of the Caribbean this week.

Fox Weather correspondent Robert Ray reports from St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, as Hurricane Melissa, a powerful Category 5 storm, closes in on the island.

Hurricane Melissa intensified into a powerful Category 5 storm and remained on track to slam Jamaica with a destructive storm surge, damaging winds and life-threatening flash flooding.

The Category 1 hurricane was heading in a northeasterly direction, about 800 kilometres south of Nova Scotia, feeding some of its moisture into the low-pressure system.

FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray is in Jamaica ahead of Hurricane Melissa's landfall expected Tuesday morning. The Category 5 hurricane is expected to deliver deadly storm surge, life-threatening and catastrophic flash flooding and landslides and destructive winds.

Melissa was a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph as of 7 a.m. Thursday and a hurricane warning was in effect in Bermuda. Melissa was 605 miles west of Bermuda, moving north-northeast at 21 mph. There is no threat to Louisiana or the Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Melissa could bring some impacts to Bermuda after slamming parts of the Caribbean with heavy rain and damaging winds. I