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

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

Melissa is about 165 miles south-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. 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.

Melissa is nearly stationary, but a slow drift toward the northeast and north is expected later today and tonight.

A westward drift is then forecast to begin on Saturd

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