Melissa: An XXL Danger

In the history of tropical hurricanes, Melissa is already earning a spot of dark exceptionality.

Never before has a Category 5 hurricane directly impacted Jamaica or eastern Cuba.

This is reported on his Facebook profile by Henry Delgado Manzor, an aeronautical meteorologist and member of the Cuban Societies of Meteorology and Speleology.

The specialist, quoted by NTV, recalls on that social network that our country only has two Category 5 hurricanes on record that have made landfall: Hurricane "Cuba," which made landfall in the province of Pinar del Río on October 19, 1924; and Hurricane Irma, which struck northern Camagüey province on September 8, 2017.

Hurricane Sandy also remains among the bad memories for eastern Cuba, where it struck 13 years ago, on October 25, 2012, leaving behind great and painful human and material losses.

But Melissa, that hurricane with a sweet name and bitter intentions, is now the third Category 5 hurricane of the current hurricane season.

This is the second time that a hurricane season in the Atlantic includes three such phenomena, and the first in 2005.

At this time, when all forces are strained to the maximum to prevent and protect, no one doubts that Melissa is an XXL threat, and nobody likes its size.

Translated by Amilkal Labañino / CubaSí Translation Staff