All storm pages · 2025 Atlantic season
Hurricane Melissa 2025
Category 5 hurricane · Atlantic · October 21 to October 31, 2025
Melissa's peak sustained wind of 190 mph is tied for the highest of the 1,988 storms in the Atlantic record since 1851, and one of 44 Category 5 storms in that record. Its central pressure fell to 892 mb, tied for the third-lowest among the 1,277 Atlantic storms with a recorded pressure. It has landfall records in 3 different places: Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas. The name Melissa is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical storm) 100 miles north of Oranjestad, Aruba
- Hurricane 125 miles south-southeast of Port Morant, Saint Thomas, Jamaica
- Major hurricane 110 miles south of Port Morant, Saint Thomas, Jamaica
- Peak 45 miles south-southwest of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica
- Landfall Jamaica
- Landfall Cuba: Category 3, 115 mph, 954 mb
- Landfall Bahamas: Category 1, 90 mph, 972 mb
- Landfall Bahamas: Category 1, 90 mph, 970 mb
- No longer tropical (extratropical low) 405 miles north-northeast of Hamilton, Bermuda
- Last record 350 miles east-southeast of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Against every Atlantic storm since 1851
More from the record
It generated 26% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy, more than any other 2025 storm.
It came ashore in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane on October 28, 2025, with 185 mph winds.
Its winds climbed 65 mph in the 24 hours to October 26.
In the 2025 season
Storm 13 of 13 in 2025, hurricane 5 of 5; it formed after Lorenzo. See the season.
Places the center passed
The center came within 50 miles of at least 8 towns or cities of 10,000 people or more while the system was tropical. Distances are to the interpolated track line, not the storm's edge.
| Place | Closest | Wind then | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica | 3 mi | 175 mph | October 28 |
| Banes, Holguín, Cuba | 4 mi | 100 mph | October 29 |
| Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba | 6 mi | 110 mph | October 29 |
| Montego Bay, Saint James, Jamaica | 12 mi | 155 mph | October 28 |
| Saint Ann's Bay, Saint Ann, Jamaica | 17 mi | 130 mph | October 28 |
| Santiago de Cuba, Cuba | 22 mi | 115 mph | October 29 |
| Holguín, Cuba | 27 mi | 105 mph | October 29 |
| Mandeville, Manchester, Jamaica | 28 mi | 155 mph | October 28 |