Hurricane Melissa is slamming eastern Cuba on Wednesday morning, Oct. 29, after hammering Jamaica on Tuesday and causing widespread damage.

Thursday will be a First Alert Weather Day as we deal with the messy conditions, especially during the morning commute.

While the rain is expected to end early Friday, wind gusts up to 50 mph are expected to continue through Halloween night.

Hurricane Melissa, which hit Jamaica as a Category 5 with sustained winds of 185 miles per hour, could bring up to 30 inches of rain.

Forecasters said the colossal amount of rain dropped on parts of Florida east and north of Orlando was comparable to what the region saw from a hurricane in 2022, underscoring the state's vulnerability to extreme weather far beyond the tropical storms that brew offshore.

Alaska’s Klondike Highway could see up to 17 inches of snow as NWS warns of dangerous travel and urges emergency-only trips.

Heavy rains are forecast to fall further north along the U.S. East Coast later in the week, with a "marginal" risk of excessive rainfall, enough to cause isolated flash flooding, over the Appalachians and portions of the Ohio and Tennessee valleys on the evening of Oct. 29 and morning of Oct. 30.

Tens of thousands of Jamaicans were in shelters, and more than two-thirds of the island was still without power, according to officials.