This morning the National Hurricane Center sent out a warning that Hurricane Beryl is approaching the Windward Islands in the next 24 hours as an “extremely dangerous” storm.
A Category 3 hurricane, Beryl is expected to intensify shortly into a Category 4 before making landfall. Hurricane Beryl is the first named Atlantic storm of the 2024 season and comes earlier than usual. It is the first hurricane in over 50 years to threaten the Atlantic in June.
Caribbean authorities are issuing advisories to residents to prepare, expecting Beryl “to become a major hurricane before it reaches places like Barbados and the Windward islands and continue to be a powerful hurricane as it moves into the eastern and central Caribbean as we go into the early portions of next week,” says Mike Brennan, Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Hurricane Center.
There are hurricane warnings for St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadine Islands. Martinique and is under a tropical storm warning and Dominica is under a tropical storm watch.
This is unreal. Hurricane Beryl continues to defy all know logic, now becoming the first June Category 4 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. I can’t even stress enough just how completely absurd that storm is. pic.twitter.com/qTuU4H5jlJ
— Nahel Belgherze (@WxNB_) June 30, 2024
An absolutely stunning view of Hurricane Beryl’s clear eye.
Beryl is now powerful, category 4 storm. pic.twitter.com/FoRBR5qJhr
— CIRA (@CIRA_CSU) June 30, 2024
….And for some Beryl memes:
Hurricane Yosef Dov Halevi to be precise. Show some respect @NWS pic.twitter.com/biUnaSr4Hp
— Dovi Safier (@safier) June 30, 2024
Beryl the water carrier is coming back with a vengeance pic.twitter.com/JwqRlY9oUR
— ay (@aimhumor) June 30, 2024
