The scale of the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa is emerging, with dozens of people known to have died in Haiti and four deaths reported in Jamaica - and the storm is now approaching the Bahamas.

As Hurricane Melissa made landfall, a daring team of aviators flew straight into the eye of the monstrous Category 5 storm.

Adding a note of poetry to the description of his experience, he said, "There was something emotional about being in the eye; perhaps it was the poetic sinisterness of knowing what the surrounding eyewall contained, and yet - even fleetingly - being immune to it.”

St Elizabeth and Montego Bay are among the worst impacted places in Jamaica, and drone footage shows streets under water. From Jamaica, the storm travelled north to Cuba, bringing with it 115mph (185kph) winds and heavy rain.

Hurricane Melissa's impact on a town in Jamaica have been filmed with the walls and roofs of buildings ripped off, and roads blocked with debris, in cataclysmic scenes

Hurricane Melissa is so severe that even hurricane tracking weather planes have been forced to avoid the storm.

Does a video posted on TikTok show Hurricane Melissa as it is making landfall in Kingston, Jamaica? No, that's not true: These clips show storms which happened around the world, some fairly recently,

The U.S. Air Force's "Hurricane Hunters" have flown inside the eye of Hurricane Melissa, capturing eerie footage of the historic storm that is expected to cause widespread devastation in Jamaica.