From BBC Learning English, this is Learning English from the News,
our podcast about the news headlines.
In this programme, the strongest storm of the year, Hurricane Melissa hits the Caribbean.
Hello, I'm Beth.
And I'm Phil.
In this programme,
we look at one big news story and the vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it.
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Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica on Tuesday as a category five storm,
with violent winds that reached a high of 295 kilometers per hour.
It's also now hit Cuba.
The Jamaican Prime Minister has declared the country a disaster area and warns of devastating impacts.
It will take time to know exactly how bad the damage is,
but we know homes and hospitals have been badly affected and there is severe flooding across Jamaica.
It's the strongest storm on earth so far this year and is one of the strongest storms in the Atlantic Ocean this century.
Our first headline is about the hurricane.
Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica.
And that's from The Guardian, a newspaper in the UK.