Key Takeaways: •Beryl is the strongest hurricane on record to hit portions of the Windward Islands so early in the season and is the earliest 165-mph Category 5 hurricane on record for the Atlantic basin •Beryl brought life-threatening conditions and extreme destruction as a Category 4 hurricane to Jamaica Wednesday and was producing dangerous...
Powerful Hurricane Beryl has made landfall in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula early Friday morning. The storm will then set its sights on Texas primarily in the form of flooding from rain and storm surge.As Hurricane Beryl barrels through the island nation of Jamaica, Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and southern Texas brace for the impending threat from the storm.
However, Beryl restrengthened to a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph for a time Thursday night. Early Friday morning, Beryl's wind intensity slipped slightly and became a Category 2 storm once again with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph. As of 10 a.m. CDT on Friday, Beryl's maximum sustained winds were near 85 mph while over the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, with the center about 680 miles to the east-southeast of Brownsville, Texas.
At this time, AccuWeather meteorologists expect Beryl to make another landfall near the Texas and Mexico border Sunday evening to early Monday. Beryl's forward speed was down 25% to 15 mph as of Friday morning, after cruising along much of the Caribbean at 20 mph.
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