A regional airport in the Bahamas was forced to close after Category 2 Hurricane Melissa struck the archipelago on Wednesday, October 29, according to local reports citing officials.Chief Councilor Ian Knowles captured footage on Thursday of flooding at Deadman’s Cay Settlement Airport and nearby areas.

Hurricane Melissa, the strongest tropical cyclone of 2025, disrupts Caribbean travel, closing airports and causing widespread flight cancellations.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba overnight after battering Jamaica as one of the most powerful landfalling storms in Atlantic basin history.

Hurricane Melissa is now hammering Cuba with its powerful winds and epic rainfall after chasing more than 700,000 people into evacuation shelters. Meanwhile, in Jamaica, we're starting to slowly get fuzzy details about just how bad the damage was, a sign of the situation's severity.

Airlines canceled flights and cruise lines rerouted ships to avoid the storm, which could affect destinations like the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos next.

Melissa is now a Category 1 moving through the Bahamas after the storm made a historic landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.

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