Melissa will make history in Jamaica with landfall today, packing catastrophic flooding, landslides and destructive winds. It will then target eastern Cuba and the southeast Bahamas. Here's the very latest forecast.

The maps you need to follow and track Hurricane Melissa and stay up-to-date on the current threats are all here.

Watch as hurricane hunters fly into the eye of Hurricane Melissa. This is the view from Teal 74’s mission into the now Category 5 storm as it churns towards the island of Jamaica. This is one of the most defined eyes ever captured in the Atlantic basin.

Hotel guests along Jamaica’s northern coast have spent days preparing as powerful Hurricane Melissa crawls closer, turning the normally bustling resort town of Ocho Rios into an area of silent lockdown. Staff at the Hotel Rui distributed food bags and secured the property as the Category 5 storm threatened catastrophe on the island.

Jamaica is bracing for potentially its strongest storm to ever impact the island, as the slow-moving, major hurricane continues to close in.