NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) - Tropical Storm Melissa continues to linger in the central Caribbean having slowed down quite a bit in its travel speed, but that won't be stopping it from becoming a major hurricane before this weekend.

Melissa is currently 320-miles south-southwest of Port Au Prince, Haiti and 300-miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica with its maximum sustained winds of 50-mph and tropical-storm-force winds that extend outward from the center up to 115-miles.

The National Hurricane Center says that "some slow strengthening is forecast during the next few days, and Melissa could become a hurricane by Friday, with more substantial intensification forecast by this weekend."

The NHC forecasts that Melissa will continue moving west-northwest near 2-mph and is expected to continue traveli

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