HOUSTON – UPDATE: Beryl is now a category 4 Hurricane. Making it the first hurricane of the 2024 season. Beryl is forecasted to rapidly intensify into a major Hurricane, with winds of 115 mph by Sunday as it moves through the Windward islands.
Saturday evening The National Hurricane Center upgraded Beryl from a Tropical Storm to Hurricane. Beryl is in the Eastern Atlantic, now 660 miles away from Barbados. Hurricane Beryl is making history- this is the farthest east that a hurricane has formed in the tropical Atlantic in June.
The forecast cone for Beryl has it continuing to move westward as it approaches the Windward Islands by the end of the weekend. Hurricane Warnings are in effect for Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada. While Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect Martinique and Tobago. Dominica is under a Tropical Storm Watch.
Other than rip current risk and rough surf, it is still too early to say what impacts Beryl will bring to the Gulf Coast. However, models continue to predict that the storm will enter the Gulf next week. Beryl is likely much weaker by then.
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