Hurricane Melissa’s maximum sustained winds had increased to 105 mph as the restrengthening storm made its way past the Bahamas early Thursday after lashing Cuba on Wednesday and carving a slow and destructive path in Jamaica and triggering deadly floods in Haiti.

Melissa will grow in size on its way toward Bermuda and is expected to pass northwest of the island. It could restrengthen more by Thursday evening, though it would be a “quick event” for the island with not much rain given Melissa’s faster speed by that time, according to Michael Brennan, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

The U.S. east coast should expect large swells and tumultuous marine conditions, as effects from Melissa combine with a storm traveling across the U.S.

The storm made its second landfall ju

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