Jamaica Braces for Melissa Landfall As Storm Winds Reach 145 Miles Per Hour 

The slow-moving but increasingly powerful Hurricane Melissa continued to churn toward Jamaica on Sunday, its maximum sustained winds reaching 145 miles per hour — with even higher gusts recorded by NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters. By Sunday evening, the storm’s eye was located about 115 miles southwest of Kingston and roughly 295 miles southwest of Guantanamo, Cuba. Melissa’s pace remained sluggish — just five miles per hour — a worrying sign for forecasters tracking what’s now a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. A Hurricane Watch remained in effect for Jamaica and parts of east