WESH 2's award-winning First Warning Weather team is monitoring Tropical Storm Melissa, which is crawling over the central Caribbean Sea, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Melissa will bring heavy rainfall to portions of Hispaniola and Jamaica over the weekend.

Melissa is about 150 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, according to the NHC.

The system has a minimum central pressure of 1001 mb and maximum sustained winds of 45 mph.

On the forecast track, Melissa is expected to approach Jamaica and the southwestern portion of Haiti later this week. This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

Significant strengthening is expected by late Friday and over the

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