Category 5 Hurricane Melissa sped up early Tuesday making landfall in Jamaica around 1 p.m, tying the record for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic.

In addition to damaging winds, Melissa is bringing "catastrophic flash flooding, and life-threatening storm surge" to the island. The storm was "one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the Atlantic Basin," according to the NHC. Melissa was located about 110 miles south-southeast of the central Bahamas.

Melissa sets its sights on Bermuda after its historic Category 5 landfall in Jamaica and major hurricane lashing in eastern Cuba. Here's the very latest forecast and recap, so far.

Melissa began affecting the southeastern Bahamas on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.Authorities in the Bahamas were evacuating dozens of people from the archipelago’s southeast corner ahead of Melissa’s arrival as a Category 1 storm.

Hurricane Melissa, a powerful and slow-moving storm, wreaked havoc on Jamaica and Cuba as it passed over the islands Tuesday and Wednesday. In Santiago de Cuba, Reinaldo Charon was one of the few people who went outside on Wednesday morning after Hurricane Melissa tore through the eastern part of the island.

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa has made landfall already in Jamaica and Cuba, as one of the strongest hurricanes to ever make landfall.

Hurricane Melissa is now hammering Cuba with its powerful winds and epic rainfall after chasing more than 700,000 people into evacuation shelters. Meanwhile, in Jamaica, we're starting to slowly get fuzzy details about just how bad the damage was, a sign of the situation's severity.

TRACKING MELISSA As Jamaica and Cuba deal with the devastating effects of Hurricane Melissa, the storm is moving quickly toward the Bahamas. See the latest track⬇️

Dozens of people have died in Haiti after a river burst its banks during Hurricane Melissa. The storm hit Jamaica yesterday, with four killed in St Elizabeth, according to the government. This morning,