Hurricane Beryl, now a Category 4, is expected to pass near Jamaica on Wednesday. The hurricane is expected to bring “life threatening winds and storm surge.”
Hurricane Beryl is now a Category 4, downgraded from a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 hurricane by the National Hurricane Center — the first ever to reach that strength in the Atlantic during the month of July.
While forecasts indicate that Beryl is weakening, the hurricane is still expected to bring “life threatening winds and storm surge” to Jamaica on Wednesday and the Cayman Islands Wednesday night. Beryl will bring hurricane conditions to the coast of Jamaica on Wednesday and to the Cayman Islands Wednesday night and Thursday. The hurricane will turn further west and is expected to continue weakening before reaching the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico later that night.there’s a slim possibility that Beryl could pose a risk to coastal Mexico and South Texas as it moves west or if it were to turn north over the gulf to coastal Texas and Louisiana.
On Tuesday, Grenada and the nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines were reeling from a storm that probably will be the region’s most intense hurricane on record.A previous version of this article incorrectly said that Hurricane Beryl was close to Granada. It was actually close to the island country of Grenada. The article has been corrected.
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