Published on : 28 Oct 2025, 5:31 pm

Hurricane Melissa is now one of the strongest hurricanes on record to make landfall anywhere in the North Atlantic Ocean. The historic landfall is imminent over the Caribbean island of Jamaica on October 28, 2025. The hurricane currently has maximum sustained wind speeds of 298 km/hr (185 miles/hr) which ties it with Hurricane Dorian in 2019 and the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 as the strongest Atlantic hurricane to ever make landfall, according to The Weather Channel.

Hurricane Melissa has a minimum central pressure of 892 mb which puts it behind Hurricane Wilma in 2005 with a minimum central pressure of 882 mb and Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 with a minimum central pressure of 888 mb in the North Atlantic basin.

The minimum central pressure of a hur

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