Melissa's top winds of 185 mph are the second-strongest ever reported in an Atlantic hurricane. The storm ties for the strongest storm to hit land, along with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, which hit the Florida Keys, and Hurricane Dorian in 2019, which hit the Bahamas.

British tourists in Jamaica have been told to prepare as the island’s strongest storm on record closes in.

Serious damage and total devastation - that's how Jamaica's PM Andrew Holness has described the south east and south west of the island after taking an aerial tour.