New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- Tropical Storm Melissa is projected to become a major hurricane - Category 3 or stronger - by this weekend or early next week. As per The Weather Channel, Melissa's center is presently in the Caribbean Sea, a few hundred miles south of Haiti and Jamaica. It is currently moving at a slow speed of 5 miles per hour.

The Weather Channel has given two possible scenarios as to where the storm will head in the coming days.

One scenario sees it moving slowly further west in the Caribbean Sea and then quickly heading northeast towards Jamaica or the Cayman Islands. This scenario looks very plausible at the moment.

The other prognosis has the storm gaining strength and moving northward, over Haiti and then going northeast t...