Hurricane Melissa is now the strongest storm on the planet this year

892 mbar / 185 mph (295 kph) winds—tied as 3rd strongest Atlantic cyclone by minimum pressure, and (I assume) tied as 1st strongest at landfall (tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane),

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT3+shtml/281401...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_rec...

Is the big US military build up on the coast of Venezuela being affected by this?

Outdated information. It is now the strongest tropical cyclone ever observed.