Hurricane Beryl has strengthened to a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm, bringing death and destruction to the Caribbean, particularly the Grenadines, and is now heading towards Jamaica.
The hurricane Berylwhich in the last few hours has brought death and destruction to the Caribbean and heads towards the Jamaicahas strengthened to become a Category 5 storm “potentially catastrophic,” the National Hurricane Center said.Nhc) of the United States. “Beryl is now a potentially catastrophic Category 5 hurricane: more are likely fluctuations of intensity, but it is expected to be close to that great intensity again” when it moves towards the Jamaicareads a statement from the NHC.
In the last few hours its passage has torn down doors, windows and roofs from homes in the southeastern Caribbean with devastating winds storm surges fueled by the record-breaking Atlantic heat. Beryl landed on the island of Carriacoua Grenadafirst as a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic, then, later in the day, the National Hurricane Center in Miami declared that its winds had increased to Category 5.
The Prime Minister of Grenada, Dickon Mitchell, reported at a press conference that a person died in St. Vincent but is not yet able to say whether there are other victims because the authorities have not been able to assess the situation on the islands of Carriacou e Little Martinique, where the communications have been largely cut off. “Within a half hour, Carriacou was flattened,” Mitchell said.
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But the worst is not over yet. Beryl is expected to remain near major hurricane strength as it moves into the central Caribbean and passes near Jamaica today, the National Hurricane Center said, with potentially lethal winds and storm surge. It is later expected to significant weakening, although experts say it will remain a “major, extremely dangerous hurricane” – a category 3 or stronger – until midweekthe Hurricane Center said.
Meanwhile, the storm continues to batter all the record (first Category 4 hurricane ever observed in June and earliest Category 5 hurricane ever observed) kicking off an exceptionally early hurricane season.
Alert also in Mexicowhere authorities have begun preparing for the arrival of Beryl, which is expected on Thursday, according to the NHC, as a probable tropical storm. In a statement, the federal government called on authorities and the population to exercise “extreme caution. What worries us is that the basins are already saturated. With a little rain, the rivers will rise,” he said Cutberto Ruiz, head of meteorology at the Oaxaca civil defense agency.
