Hurricane
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall along the Gulf Coast of Texas early Monday morning. The earliest Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in history, the storm killed at least seven people in the Windward Islands before skirting south of Jamaica, shutting down communications, stranding tourists […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl made landfall northeast of the resort town of Tulum on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 storm early Friday. Beryl was packing maximum sustained winds of 110 mph when it came ashore, weakening to 100 mph an hour after landfall. The hurricane hit Mexico after it left […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl has weakened to a Category 3 storm on Thursday, but not before leaving flooding and widespread damage on the island of Jamaica late Wednesday. Beryl’s center passed just 45 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica, as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph. Beryl was the first […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl is slamming Jamaica with life-threatening impacts. Wind gusts were up to 175 mph as the Category 4 storm moved past the south side of the island Wednesday afternoon. Storm surge up to 9 feet and 4 to 8 inches of rain are expected on Jamaica due to the […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — As Hurricane Beryl barrels toward Jamaica, the country’s prime minister, Andrew Holness, pre-emptively declared the entire island a disaster area in an address to the public on Tuesday night. Holmes also said an island-wide curfew will be in place from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time Wednesday. Although the […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl has been upgraded to a Category 5 and is being described as “potentially catastrophic,” the National Hurricane Center announced Monday night. Maximum sustained winds have increased to 160 mph, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Hurricane Hunters. Beryl is currently moving across the eastern Caribbean Sea […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl has been upgraded to a Category 5 and is being described as “potentially catastrophic,” the National Hurricane Center announced Monday night. Maximum sustained winds have increased to 160 mph, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Hurricane Hunters. Beryl is currently moving across the eastern Caribbean Sea […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl regained its Category 4 status as it slammed into Carriacou Island with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. Beryl made landfall in Carriacou at 11:10 a.m. ET as an “extremely dangerous” storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. The cyclone hit Carriacou with maximum winds that were just […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl was on Monday moving westward south of Barbados, approaching the nearby Windward Islands as a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph. The storm was headed for St. Vincent, Grenadines, Grenada, and Carriacou and Petite Martinique islands. Life-threatening and potentially catastrophic wind, waves and storm […]
ABC News (BRIDGETOWN, Barbados) — Hurricane Beryl picked up power and speed on Sunday as it churned in the Caribbean and was upgraded to a major Category 4 storm, the first hurricane on record to reach major status east of the Lesser Antilles in the month of June. The rapidly developing storm is now the […]
