Largest Storm EVER Set to Hit Jamaica

 In our ongoing quest to bring you headlines with the words, "Never" and "Ever", we have a new one.  There is a massive hurricane, category 5, the largest storm of 2025 in the world, and it's barreling down on Jamaica and they are saying, "The largest hurricane to EVER hit the island" and also using phrases like "unimaginable destruction" is possible.

Summary of the day so far

It’s almost 1.30pm Monday in Kingston, Jamaica, where islanders are nervously awaiting landfall of category 5 Hurricane Melissa early on Tuesday, even though strong winds and heavy rains are already buffeting the south coast and inland areas.

Here’s what we’ve been following so far:

Officials say the hurricane, one of the strongest ever recorded in the Caribbean, has “the ingredients to be a catastrophic storm”. Liz Stephens, professor in climate risks and resilience at University of Reading, said: “Communities in Jamaica will need to prepare for potentially unimaginable impacts, and with climate change fueling stronger storms with higher rainfall totals, this is a stark example for other countries as to what may be in store for them.”

At least six deaths have already been attributed to the storm. Three people were killed in Haiti and another in the Dominican Republic, where another person remains missing, according to the Associated Press. Two people died in Jamaica over the weekend as they cut trees ahead of the storm.

Emergency evacuations have been under way in vulnerable areas of Jamaica for many hours, even though officials warn no area of the island will be immune to Melissa’s 157mph+ winds, combined with its potentially deadly storm surge.

Andrew Holness, the prime minster of Jamaica, told an emergency briefing in Kingston on Monday, that residents were turning up at some of his country’s 881 hurricane shelters only to find them locked. “We have to strengthen this part of our preparedness, of getting the shelter managers to not wait until someone is coming. Once we activate the shelter, it should be open and ready for persons to come in, even if no one comes,” he said.

Jamaica’s two international airports have been closed since Sunday. Desmond McKenzie, the minister of local government, warned: “Many communities will not survive the flooding. Kingston is extremely low. No community in Kingston is immune.”

After moving north through Jamaica on Tuesday, Melissa will set its sights on Cuba on Tuesday night, and then the south-eastern Bahamas on Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center in Miami on Monday issued a hurricane warning for most of eastern Cuba, including the provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and Holguin; and a hurricane watch is in place for the Turks and Caicos islands and south-eastern Bahamas.

Here;  Hurricane Melissa strengthens to category 5 as communities in Jamaica warned of ‘potentially unimaginable impact’ – live

Yes of course!  It has to be CLIMATE CHANGE that is making this all possible.  It can't possibly be the Creator of the Universe allowing more earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes as part of the birth pangs that He told us to expect in the very Last Days.

I can't imagine being on an island that's going to be completely covered by a category 5 storm.  It's probably not possible to get in your car and drive somewhere out of the eye...like the folks in Florida do.

We might want to remember these folks in our prayers over the next few days as it doesn't sound good.