Hurricane Beryl expected into the Gulf of Mexico, should weaken. Another system could follow it.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Beryl bore down on the southeast Caribbean early Monday as a powerful Category 3 storm after previously becoming the earliest storm of Category 4 strength to form in the Atlantic, fueled by record warm waters.
Beryl was located 125 miles east-southeast of Grenada early Monday. It had maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour and was moving west at 20 mph . It was a compact storm, with hurricane-force winds extending 35 miles from its center. Officials in some southeast Caribbean islands announced controlled shutdowns of electricity and warned of water outages ahead of the storm, urging people to seek shelter. They warned of landslides and flash flooding as they shuttered schools, airports and government offices.
It also was the earliest Category 4 Atlantic hurricane on record, besting Hurricane Dennis, which became a Category 4 storm on July 8, 2005. Among those weathering the storm was Jaswinderpal Parmar of Fresno, California, who had traveled to Barbados for
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