Memories of last season’s Hurricane Melissa which devastated parts of neighbouring Jamaica, are still fresh in Cayman as we look ahead to the 2026 hurricane season just over a month away.
Three members of the Cayman Islands National Weather Service (CINWS) are currently attended the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando, Florida from 30 March to 2 April, Allan Ebanks and Benjamin Harding, Meteorological Forecasters and Dwayne Leslie, Aeronautical Meteorological Observer
It’s an entry in the history books that Jamaica could have done without.
Hurricane Melissa is now slowly heading north-northeast at 5 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. Melissa is expected to make landfall over Jamaica this morning. Interaction with Jamaica will result in a weakening of the system as it moves near Cuba early tomorrow morning.
6:30 AM Update on Hurricane Melissa by the C.I. National Weather Service
The Civil Service has announced that it will be open for business tomorrow (Monday, 27 October), operating normal business hours across all services
Jamaica is hunkering down this Sunday for a direct hit from massive and potentially catastrophic Hurricane Melissa.
The National Hurricane Center continues its advisories on Tropical Storm Melissa.
The slow and meandering movement of storm Melissa has become a cause of concern for Cayman as residents and authorities closely monitor the movement of the hard-to-predict weather system.
The message of hurricane preparedness from the recent National Week of Readiness (September 17th to 24th) still echoes with powerful relevance as Cayman heads into the home stretch of the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season.