It’s looking more likely that Newfoundland and Labrador will feel the impacts of Hurricane Melissa.

The powerful system made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm, causing widespread destruction in that nation as well as other Caribbean countries such as Haiti and Cuba, resulting in numerous casualties.

Early tracks for Melissa had the storm passing well off our coast, however the latest information from the Canadian Hurricane Centre has seen a shift in the track.

Now, part of the “cone of uncertainty,” or the area where the storm could track, is directly over the Avalon Peninsula.

The track has the storm passing the province with category 1 force winds, initially at 130 km/h then diminishing to 120 km/h.

Melissa is currently down in the tropics as a Category 2 hurrican

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