HHurricane Beryl, a Category 4 storm, was barreling through the southeastern Caribbean on Monday afternoon. The hurricane made landfall on Grenada’s Carriacou Island on Monday morning, where it brought winds of 150 miles per hour.
The storm, which is predicted to bring “life-threatening winds and storm surge”, has already caused power outages and flooding in other Caribbean islands such as Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago and Grenada also on Monday. .
The hurricane is then expected to continue west over the next four to five days, where it will likely pass through Jamaica on Wednesday before reaching Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Friday, according to the National Center of Hurricanes. Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti are also expected to feel the impact of the storm, although they are further out of sight than other islands.
The National Hurricane Center warned that the storm is “extremely dangerous.”
Hurricane Beryl is the only Category 4 storm on record for the month of June, causing an unusually aggressive start to this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, which typically peaks between August and October.
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