Hurricane Melissa Hits the Bahamas After Leaving Trail of Destruction in the Caribbean

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Nassau, October 30 (Saudi Arabia Breaking News) – Hurricane Melissa has reached the Bahamas, bringing destructive winds, torrential rainfall, and a dangerous storm surge, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC).

The storm, now classified as a Category 1 hurricane, is moving rapidly toward the northeast with sustained winds of up to 150 kilometers per hour, forecasters said.

Authorities in the Bahamas ordered evacuations across six islands, with about 1,500 people flown out of high-risk areas before air traffic was suspended. Emergency teams remain on alert as the storm continues to move across the island chain.

Melissa had earlier swept through Jamaica and Cuba, causing severe flooding and infrastructure damage. It made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane—one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic, meteorologists said.

Regional officials reported that more than 30 people have died, most of them in Haiti, where heavy rainfall and flash floods struck several areas even though the storm did not make landfall there.

The NHC continues to monitor the storm’s trajectory as it moves toward open waters northeast of the Caribbean, warning that dangerous conditions may persist across coastal regions in the coming days.