Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica with winds of 185 miles per hour. The massive category 5 storm continued to strengthen up until the moment it made landfall near the town of New Hope.

The UK will provide £2.5m in emergency humanitarian funding to Jamaica, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has announced. UK relief supplies and technical experts have also been deployed to assist with the disaster response and recovery from the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa.

Melissa could be the worst hurricane Jamaica has experienced since recordkeeping began -- but some residents on the Caribbean island say they will believe it when they see it.

In a statement, the archdiocese said Archbishop Richard G. Henning has requested that all pastors take up the collection at services no later than the weekend of Nov. 15 and 16.

Hurricane Melissa went through rapid intensification on Saturday, jumping from a Category 2 to a Category 4 by early Sunday morning, the National Hurricane Center said.

Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a Category 4 storm on Saturday. It unleashed torrential rain and threatened to cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica, the U.

The US Air Force’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, famously known as the Hurricane Hunters, had to call off their mission after facing intense turbulence inside Hurricane Melissa. The aircraft experienced powerful air currents while entering the storm’s eye,

Hurricane Melissa made landfall overnight, leaving swathes of Jamaica under water and more than 500,000 without power after 185mph winds battered the Caribbean island. The historic storm, dubbed the 'storm of the century', is now barrelling towards Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane.

Nations across the Caribbean were assessing the cost in lives and destruction from Hurricane Melissa, no more so than on Jamaica where at least 19 people died.