Hurricane Beryl maps show path and landfall forecast

Beryl turned the first named hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season on Saturday because it inches in direction of the southeast Caribbean, the place it’s forecast to carry excessive winds and torrential rains.

Beryl strengthened into an “extraordinarily harmful” Class 4 hurricane on Sunday morning, turning into the primary main hurricane east of the Lesser Antilles on report for June, in keeping with Philip Klotzbach, Colorado State College hurricane researcher.

Forecasters warned Beryl is anticipated to strengthen right into a harmful main hurricane earlier than reaching Barbados and the Windward Islands late Sunday or early Monday. Brian McNoldy, a tropical meteorology researcher for the College of Miami, informed the Related Press that heat waters are fueling Beryl, with ocean warmth content material within the deep Atlantic the very best on report for this time of 12 months.

Beryl is the primary hurricane in additional than fifty years to look earlier than July 4th within the Atlantic basin. Alma hit the Florida Keys on June 8, 1966, in keeping with Climate Underground. 

The place is Hurricane Beryl headed? 

As of two p.m. ET, Beryl was situated about 310 miles east-southeast of Barbados with most sustained winds of 130 mph and was transferring west at 21 mph.

Hurricane warnings are already in impact in Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Tobago. Tropical storm warnings are in impact for Martinique, whereas a tropical storm watch is in impact in Dominica and Trinidad.

Beryl’s heart was forecast to move about 26 miles south of Barbados, Sabu Finest, director of the island’s meteorological service, informed the AP.  

CBS Information climate producer David Parkinson stated Beryl is the farthest east a hurricane has shaped within the month of June. Just one different hurricane shaped this far east in June — and that was in 1933. 

The middle of Beryl is anticipated to maneuver throughout the Windward Islands — which incorporates Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Dominica and St. Vincent —  by Monday, in keeping with the hurricane heart, bringing “life-threatening winds and storm surge.”

Beryl is forecast to change into a significant hurricane earlier than it reaches the Windward Islands, in keeping with the hurricane heart. 

The place will Hurricane Beryl carry rain and flooding? 

Beryl is forecast to drop anyplace from 3 to six inches of rain in Barbados and the Windward Islands, and convey a storm surge of as much as seven ft.

St. Vincent is anticipated to rise up to six inches of rainfall. Martinique, Grenada, and Dominica are anticipated to obtain 2 to 4 inches of rain. Beryl is anticipated to carry life-threatening winds and a storm surge to the Windward Islands beginning Sunday evening.   

Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Granada, the Grenadine Islands and Tobago are all below a hurricane warning. Martinique is below a tropical storm warning, whereas Dominica is below a tropical storm watch.   

Any U.S. impacts are nonetheless no less than eight days away, Parkinson stated, and Beryl is anticipated to stay south of Jamaica.  

— David Parkinson and the Related Press contributed to this report.