Hurricane Beryl is the first hurricane to ever reach Category 5 status in the first half of July. But is the storm heading to Texas?
Beryl, the first hurricane of the season, has intensified into a historic storm as it moves through the middle of the Caribbean . The storm is likely to enter the Gulf of Mexico this weekend, where more forecast models show it starting to take a northern curve, so the overall odds of a Texas landfall have increased a bit in the last 48 hours. As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, Beryl is a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 160 mph.
Some weather models keep the storm moving west, making landfall on Mexico’s west coast. Others curve the storm farther north, making landfall in Texas between the Rio Grande Valley and Port O’Connor. If Beryl takes that northern curve and made a Texas landfall, it would likely come on Sunday or Monday. In addition, the southern Texas coast, from South Padre to Corpus Christi, has a higher chance of getting peripheral storms than the northern Texas coast, including Galveston and Houston.
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