andyhb Posted Saturday at 07:30 PM Share Posted Saturday at 07:30 PM The damage in this overhead imagery is pretty mind boggling. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normandy Ho Posted Saturday at 09:53 PM Share Posted Saturday at 09:53 PM On 10/31/2025 at 10:13 AM, WxWatcher007 said: Incredible that the season—an extraordinarily condensed one—ended with possibly the strongest Atlantic landfall in recorded history. On top of two other cat fives. Just a stupid season . From the images I’ve seen this is some of the worst wind damage I’ve ever witnessed. Turning the west end of Jamaica brown from space is wild 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted Sunday at 01:04 AM Share Posted Sunday at 01:04 AM The damage in this overhead imagery is pretty mind boggling.The url on extwitter only showed the damage around those coordinates. Here's the main site you can use to zoom through what has been mapped so far.https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/melissa/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted Sunday at 01:11 AM Share Posted Sunday at 01:11 AM I expected the imagery to be sombering for the southern coast. But the amount of destruction on Jamaica's NW coast, Montego Bay, etc., is pretty horrible. Clearly, Melissa's eyewall remained intense all the way across the island. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normandy Ho Posted Sunday at 01:13 AM Share Posted Sunday at 01:13 AM 1 minute ago, Windspeed said: I expected the imagery to be sombering for the southern coast. But the amount of destruction on Jamaica's NW coast, Montego Bay, etc., is pretty horrible. Clearly, Melissa's eyewall remained intense all the way across the island. For sure the Montego Bay damage consistent with cat3 winds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted Sunday at 01:20 AM Share Posted Sunday at 01:20 AM For sure the Montego Bay damage consistent with cat3 windsYeah, unfortunately, it seems everything operationally is verifying on the ground. I am hopeful many lives were saved by residents heeding the advanced warnings. They had several days to plan. It will still be a miracle if the death count doesn't rise, however, despite the more densely populated areas in eastern Jamaica avoiding the eyewall. As you can see in the imagery, there are an overwhelming number of structures deroofed, walls down, or completely destroyed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted Sunday at 01:36 AM Share Posted Sunday at 01:36 AM 15 minutes ago, Windspeed said: 23 minutes ago, Normandy Ho said: For sure the Montego Bay damage consistent with cat3 winds Yeah, unfortunately, it seems everything operationally is verifying on the ground. I am hopeful many lives were saved by residents heeding the advanced warnings. They had several days to plan. It will still be a miracle if the death count doesn't rise, however, despite the more densely populated areas in eastern Jamaica avoiding the eyewall. As you can see in the imagery, there are an overwhelming number of structures deroofed, walls down, or completely destroyed. Any major flooding reports from this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted Sunday at 05:00 AM Share Posted Sunday at 05:00 AM Any major flooding reports from this?Flooding did occur. I just do not have access to anything official yet. Based on images, there was clearly a strong storm surge in the right-front quadrant. Also, the eastern areas of the island did not go unscathed as there was flash flooding off the ridges. But so far, I have not read any official numbers yet on either. Hopefully, as Melissa gained forward speed while crossing the island, mudflows due to flooding were mitigated somewhat. If anyone has anything official, please share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted Sunday at 08:40 PM Author Share Posted Sunday at 08:40 PM On 10/30/2025 at 10:42 PM, Coach McGuirk said: My mom said the death toll is only 3 people. I said that has to go up as they start actually going through the rubble. Unfortunately you were right about Jamaica as it’s now up to 28 and probably still climbing as they find more bodies: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floydbuster Posted Sunday at 11:30 PM Share Posted Sunday at 11:30 PM 18 hours ago, Windspeed said: Flooding did occur. I just do not have access to anything official yet. Based on images, there was clearly a strong storm surge in the right-front quadrant. Also, the eastern areas of the island did not go unscathed as there was flash flooding off the ridges. But so far, I have not read any official numbers yet on either. Hopefully, as Melissa gained forward speed while crossing the island, mudflows due to flooding were mitigated somewhat. If anyone has anything official, please share. Thankfully Melissa had tighter-wound bands that I expected, so the massive rain amounts were more limited than I expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted Monday at 12:14 AM Author Share Posted Monday at 12:14 AM 19 hours ago, Windspeed said: Flooding did occur. I just do not have access to anything official yet. Based on images, there was clearly a strong storm surge in the right-front quadrant. Also, the eastern areas of the island did not go unscathed as there was flash flooding off the ridges. But so far, I have not read any official numbers yet on either. Hopefully, as Melissa gained forward speed while crossing the island, mudflows due to flooding were mitigated somewhat. If anyone has anything official, please share. 44 minutes ago, Floydbuster said: Thankfully Melissa had tighter-wound bands that I expected, so the massive rain amounts were more limited than I expected. This is just one place that flooded from extreme rains coming off the nearby ridges, the well inland Mandeville to the E of Santa Cruz (which also flooded) and 20 miles E of the worst devastation from surge and winds: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted Monday at 04:10 PM Share Posted Monday at 04:10 PM I hate having to deal with all the Nazi crap on X (Twitter) to find footage and imagery from Jamaica. I can't wait to see Josh's full range of footage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FPizz Posted Monday at 04:21 PM Share Posted Monday at 04:21 PM 6 minutes ago, eyewall said: I hate having to deal with all the Nazi crap on X (Twitter) to find footage and imagery from Jamaica. I can't wait to see Josh's full range of footage. One search pulled up tons of pictures and posts. Not sure what you are doing on there, lol. You can also just use a google search for tons of images. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted 2 hours ago Author Share Posted 2 hours ago From elsewhere: The number of deaths caused by Melissa on Jamaica is now 35 and still rising with an unknown number of people missing. Unfortunately, as expected, this makes Melissa one of the deadliest hurricanes in Jamaica in the recorded database (1851 - now) and the deadliest since Gilbert (using the current death toll). Here are the other most destructive hurricanes in Jamaica since 1851.Hurricane / Year / Death tollCharlie / 1951 / 1521912 Jamaica hurricane / 1912 / 1001903 Jamaica hurricane / 1903 / 65Gilbert / 1988 / 45Tropical Depression One / 1979 / 41Melissa / 2025 / 35 That’s from Kevin, a Storm2K poster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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