Hurricane Melissa, now a powerful Category 5 storm, is bearing down on Jamaica and is forecast to be the worst storm in the island's history.

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

Jeff Masters is a writer for Yale Climate Connections and a former hurricane hunter. He wrote, “Melissa has yet to make a landfall, but has already been responsible for eight deaths: five in Haiti, tw...