A meteorologist had the rare opportunity to fly into the eye of a major hurricane. His bird's-eye view of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa left him horrified and humbled after staring into the inside of the 5th most intense Atlantic hurricane on record.

As Hurricane Melissa made landfall, a daring team of aviators flew straight into the eye of the monstrous Category 5 storm.

Hurricane Melissa became the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in Jamaica when it hit the island on Oct. 28, 2025.

Hurricane Melissa, which is stronger than Hurricane Katrina, is set to bring catastrophic winds, flash flooding and high storm surges to the island of Jamaica.

The scale of the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa is emerging, with dozens of people known to have died in Haiti and four deaths reported in Jamaica - and the storm is now approaching the Bahamas.

Melissa underwent extreme rapid intensification, strengthening to a rare Category 5 with winds of 175 mph and stronger gusts, making it the strongest storm on the planet this year. Follow for live updates.

Already today we’ve been monitoring significant amounts of fake AI-generated storm videos spreading to millions of viewers online, tracked the ‘Hurricane Hunter’ aircraft flying directly into the eye of the hurricane and shown you how rare it is to see a storm of this magnitude.