A video shared online shows the "monster eye" of Hurricane Melissa as it moves toward Jamaica, projected to be the planet's strongest storm of the year.

The "catastrophic" Category 5 storm was predicted to make landfall early Tuesday (October 28) morning on a diagonal path across Jamaica in what the U.S. National Hurricane Center warned could be the largest hurricane ever recorded for the Caribbean island. Aerial footage shared by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere showed "the monster eye at the center of a still strengthening Hurricane Melissa" and the storm still moving as "a Category 5 storm as it starts to move northward towards Jamaica" on Monday (October 27).

Hurricane Melissa's current wingspan is reported to be larger than the length of the entire country

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