Hurricane Melissa

Hurricane Melissa the thirteenth and final named storm, fifth and fourth major hurricane, and third Category 5 hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season formed on 21 October becoming an extratropical on 31 October and then dissipated on November 4.  Melissa was also the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2025 causing 102 fatalities, 141 injuries, 27 missing persons, and ten million US Dollars in damage, the costliest hurricane to date for Jamaica. Melissa reached Category Five peaking 160 knots wind speeds and an 892 mbar low pressure, tied for third lowest pressure in the Atlantic basin.  Hurricane Melissa originated in West Africa and Windward Islands as it travelled the Atlantic Ocean and into the Caribbean it developed as a Tropical Storm, and in October 25 to 27 became a category five Hurricane, making landfall the following day in Jamaica peaking intensity in New Hope Jamaica, weakening to Category 1 it made another landfall in Chivirico Cuba, and then approached Bermuda as Category 2 as a  hurricane-force extratropical low on October 31.  Melissa remnants passed near Newfoundland and then dissipated on November four.

Hurricane Melissa caused mostly property damage in the Jamaica, with some boats damaged and ending aground in Stocking Island and Flamingo Bay in the Bahamas on the thirty October.  Two sailboats and the below motor boat ended ashore in Stocking Island, while a sail boat had a broken mast in Flamingo Bay.

The above Bayliner 3870 Motor Yacht as produced from 1983 to 1989 ended aground as Hurriane Melissa passed near Stocking Island, Bahamas on the 25 October.