Hurricane Beryl, which had reached a Category 5 strength in the Caribbean, made landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane.
Hurricane Beryl has been snapped from space as it smacked into the Texan coast on Monday morning.The hurricane had previously hit Category 5 strength as it moved across the Caribbean and claimed at least 11 lives as it battered Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela, and Jamaica.The storm was a Category 1 hurricane at the time of hitting Texas, having re-intensified to a hurricane from a tropical storm after it blustered through Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula during the weekend.
Beryl formed on June 28 and intensified into a hurricane incredibly quickly, becoming a Category 4 strength hurricane by June 30 and a Category 5 on July 1. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale defines a hurricane as having wind speeds of at least 74 mph, with Category 4 storms seeing winds of 130-156 mph and Category 5 storms having 157 mph winds or higher.
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