Hurricane Beryl Menaces Jamaica At Category 5

July 2, 2024 Climate Change, Weather

The Weather Channel reports:

Hurricane Beryl became the earliest Atlantic Category 5 on record overnight following a historic Windward Islands landfall earlier Monday. It’s not done yet, with Beryl likely to spread its impacts across Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and the Yucatan Peninsula before facing an uncertain future in the Gulf of Mexico.

Current status: Beryl remains a Category 5 with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph over the eastern Caribbean Sea this morning and is moving west-northwest. However, it’s also possible that Beryl could take more of a northward jog toward the Texas coast early next week.

R​esidents along the Gulf Coast from eastern Mexico to Texas should, for now, monitor the forecasts in the coming days.

CBS News reports:



Hurricane Beryl strengthened to scale-topping Category 5 status late Monday after it ripped doors, windows and roofs off homes across the southeastern Caribbean with devastating winds and storm surge fueled by the Atlantic’s record warmth and was still a Cat 5 early Tuesday as it started to put Jamaica in its sights.

Beryl could bring “life-threatening winds and storm surge” to the island, the center stressed. Beryl’s center is expected to move quickly across the southeastern and central Caribbean Sea Tuesday and is forecast to pass near Jamaica on Wednesday and the Cayman Islands on Thursday, the center said.

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