Hurricane Beryl has made landfall on the Caribbean island of Carriacou after becoming the earliest storm of that strength to form in the Atlantic, fueled by…
Officials have reported damage including roofs blown off with the storm’s maximum winds increasing to top winds of 150 mphWinds up to 150 mph , just shy of a Category 5 storm, blew off roofs, uprooted trees and caused other damage on Carriacou, one of the islands of Grenada, and elsewhere in the southeast Caribbean.Hurricane warnings remained in effect for Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines as thousands of people hunkered down in homes and shelters.
“There is the likelihood of even greater damage,” he told reporters. “We have no choice but to continue to pray.” In Barbados, officials received more than a dozen reports of roof damage, fallen trees and downed electric posts across the island, said Kerry Hinds, emergency management director. Wilfred Abrahams, minister of home affairs and information, said drones — which are faster than crews fanning across the island — would assess damage once Beryl passes.
The storm was expected to weaken slightly over the Caribbean Sea on a path that would take it just south of Jamaica and later toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 1. It also was the earliest Category 4 Atlantic hurricane on record, besting Hurricane Dennis, which became a Category 4 storm on July 8, 2005.
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