Jamaica was declared a disaster area after Melissa made landfall there. Dangerous flooding and storm surge will hit Cuba and the Bahamas on Wednesday.

KINGSTON (Reuters) -Hurricane Melissa slammed into the southern coast of eastern Cuba on Wednesday, hours after causing devastation in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever cyclone on record to hit that Caribbean island nation.

Melissa’s 185 mph winds rival the most intense Atlantic storms on record. The Category 5 hurricane is threatening Jamaica with a storm surge of up to 13 feet.

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, tying for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane in history

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba after devastating western Jamaica. The Trump administration is using misleading videos to portray chaos in U.S. cities. The White House fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts.

Hurricane Melissa barreled toward eastern Cuba, where it was expected to make landfall as a major storm early Wednesday after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record

As powerful Hurricane Melissa creeps toward Jamaica on Tuesday morning, here's how you can help those impacted by the catastrophic storm

Hurricane Melissa is close to making landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the island in the 174 years since records began