The drills have been completed, the multi-agency preparedness training was successfully executed, and residents and businesses have been advised to ensure their hurricane season preparedness plans are in order; from documentation to evacuation plans.
Last week, the Cayman Islands National Weather Service launched an upgraded website at www.weather.gov.ky, delivering faster access to real-time weather data and improved severe weather warnings across the Islands.
Hurricane Melissa remains a defining event for the Caribbean and demands a rigorous reassessment of climate-related risk.
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.