Hurricane Melissa's destruction in Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
Hurricane Melissa, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in more than 150 years, made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane on October 28, 2025, then struck Cuba, unleashing torrential rain, ferocious winds and deadly flooding across the Caribbean, including in Haiti.[1][2][3]
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Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)
49%0%
Oct 20252026this week
LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 7 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (3 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Nov 3, 2025
2
2
1
5 of 209
2%
Oct 27, 2025
26
47
12
85 of 174
49%
Oct 20, 2025
14
28
5
47 of 194
24%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Oct 29, 2025 · first reported · Headline from ABC 11 Raleigh
Melissa began as a tropical storm dumping heavy rain on Hispaniola,[4] and forecasters warned of catastrophic flooding in Jamaica and Haiti as it strengthened.[5] After landfall, satellite images showed a trail of destruction across Jamaica,[2] and people across the northern Caribbean dug out as the death toll climbed.[3][1]
