Alarming video has captured the monster eye of Hurricane Melissa barreling towards Jamaica — as the planet’s strongest storm this year was on track to pummel the Caribbean island early Tuesday.
The slow-moving “catastrophic” Category 5 storm was expected to make landfall in the early hours and slice diagonally across the island — in what could be the largest on record for the nation, the US National Hurricane Center warned.
Menacing aerial footage showed the eye of the storm swirling above as the hurricane was already packing sustained winds of up to 175 mph as of late Monday.
Melissa’s wingspan is currently larger than the length of Jamaica.
Forecasters have warned Jamaica could be threatened with days of never-before-seen catastrophic winds and as much as 3 feet of rain as the hu

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