A hurricane warning has been issued for Jamaica after the storm hit the southeastern Caribbean.
Hurricane Beryl ripped off doors, windows, and roofs in homes across the southeastern Caribbean on Monday after making landfall on the island of Carriacou, the earliest storm of Category 4 strength to form in the Atlantic, fueled by record warm waters.
Beryl was still swiping the southeast Caribbean late on Monday afternoon as it began moving into the Caribbean Sea on a track that would take it just south of Jamaica and toward Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula by late Thursday as a Category 1 storm.Late on Monday, Beryl was located about 575 miles east-southeast of Isla Beata in the Dominican Republic and was moving west-northwest at 21 mph, with hurricane conditions possible in Jamaica on Wednesday.
The last strong hurricane to hit the southeast Caribbean was Hurricane Ivan 20 years ago, which killed dozens of people in Grenada. Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said he would travel to Carriacou as soon as it was safe, noting the “extensive” storm surge.
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