Tropical Storm Melissa to Hit Jamaica this Week

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is just not but useless, as one other storm is brewing within the Caribbean.

Tropical Storm Melissa is barreling towards Jamaica and Haiti on Wednesday morning, transferring at 7 mph from its place about 300 miles south-southwest of Port-au-Prince. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) expects Melissa to hit Jamaica after which Haiti late this week and this weekend.

The NHC doesn’t at present anticipate the storm to journey past the Caribbean. It does, nevertheless, anticipate Melissa to achieve hurricane standing “during the next few days.”

As of Wednesday morning, the NHC has a Tropical Storm Watch in impact for Jamaica and a Hurricane Watch in impact for the southwestern peninsula of Haiti from the border with the Dominican Republic to Port-au-Prince. The extra consequential warning for the journey business is that Jamaica warning—Haiti has not been a serious vacation spot for vacationers since July 2023, and Royal Caribbean, which has the most important presence on the island, is just not planning on crusing to Labadee till on the earliest May 2026.

Melissa might dump 5 to 10 inches of rain within the southern Dominican Republic, southern Haiti, and jap Jamaica by way of Saturday.

There are at present no journey alerts for Melissa from any main airline, however that might change shortly because the storm strikes in the direction of Jamaica. American Airlines, JetBlue, United, and Spirit are all scheduled to fly into Montego Bay (MBJ) and Kingston (KIN) this week.