What to Know • Hurricane Melissa struck Cuba Wednesday as a Category 2 storm, a day after hitting Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. • Melissa was bringing damaging winds, flooding rains and dangerous storm surge to Cuba before it was expected to reach the Bahamas later Wednesday. • Melissa was expected to remain a powerful hurricane when it moves across the Bahamas later Wednesday and passes near Bermuda on Thursday night, the NHC said. • Melissa is the 13th named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season and the 5th hurricane. An average hurricane season generally produces 14 named storms and 7 hurricanes.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Cuba early Wednesday with catastrophic winds, flash flooding and stor

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