Hurricane Melissa Update

Updated Wednesday, October 29, 2025 @ 5 AM EDT

Hurricane Melissa is moving over Eastern Cuba after making landfall late last night. Now a Category 2 Hurricane, it’s bringing damaging winds, flooding rains, and dangerous storm surge. At 5:00 AM EDT, Melissa is expected to move across the southeastern or central Bahamas later today, and pass near or to the west of Bermuda late Thursday and Thursday night with winds now at 115 miles per hour.

WX4NHC, amateur radio station at the National Hurricane Center,  remains active and will be on-the-air on the Hurricane Watch Netfrequency14.325 MHz most of the time and 7.268MHz depending on propagation. The VoIP Hurricane Net was activated on Monday and is expected to remain active until late Wednesday evening. The National Emergency Network of the Cuban Radio Amateur Federation (REN-FRC in Spanish) is also  active through station CO9DCN, from the National Civil Defense Staff. Cuba.

Amateur radio operators are continuing to monitor the weather nets and are relaying information, as necessary.

ARRL will have updates as the situation develops and Hurricane Melissa continues its path northwestward

Read more – ARRL: https://www.arrl.org/news/hurricane-melissa-update