Hurricane Melissa has strengthened back into a Category 2 storm and is heading toward Bermuda. The storm caused widespread destruction and dozens of deaths across Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba. Florida will be spared from the storm's wind and rain but will ...

Melissa developed into a deadly Category 5 hurricane Monday, Oct. 27, and is expected to have historically catastrophic impacts on the northern Caribbean.

At 5 p.m., Melissa was located about 80 miles south of the Central Bahamas. Melissa is not expected to make landfall in Florida or the U.S. The powerful storm made landfall on Jamaica Tuesday morning and on Cuba early Wednesday morning. It's expected to move across the Bahamas later today and pass near Bermuda late Thursday.

Forecasters said the colossal amount of rain dropped on parts of Florida east and north of Orlando was comparable to what the region saw from a hurricane in 2022, underscoring the state's vulnerability to extreme weather far beyond the tropical storms that brew offshore.

Melissa devastated Jamaica after making landfall as a deadly Category 5. The hurricane has since made landfall in Cuba. Where it's going Wednesday.

Florida attorney Dan Newlin is sending two personal jets to Jamaica to deliver food and other relief items after the island was hit by Hurricane Melissa.

In Cooper City, Brittany and Dwayne Wolfe have offered up their home as a drop-off site for diapers and other necessities. The couple are the cofounders of The Greater Fort Lauderdale Diaper Bank, and many of the organization’s volunteers and supporters grew up in Jamaica or still have family on the island.