Here is a fantastic loop of the radar showing this morning's eyewall merger. You can see the two bands merge, followed by the new single eyewall blow up with red. This is also the point in which the satellite blew up with intense lightning.
https://x.com/WxTca/status/1983146321751024008
It is clear something favorable happened to the inner core structure in the last two hours. The CDO suddenly appears even stronger, the eye has grown in size, and there has been an explosion of intense lightning surrounding the eye.
It appears the Google DeepMind model will be one of the winners again. Several other models kept wanting to bring Melissa farther north, in between Haiti and Jamaica or into eastern Jamaica from the east/southeast. The Google ensembles never budged from the wsw/west track to the south of Jamaica.