Hurricane Melissa marched northeast toward Bermuda on Thursday after the record-setting storm left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean, ripping roofs of buildings and causing widespread power outages.
Melissa was 685 miles (1,102 kilometers) southwest of Bermuda as of 5 a.m. New York Time and is expected to continue to speed up as it tracks 100 miles northwest of the territory as a Category 2 hurricane, according to the US National Hurricane Center said. It will weaken dramatically as it enters cooler waters in the North Atlantic near Newfoundland on Friday, US forecasters said.