Recently upgraded to Category 3, Hurricane Beryl is forecast to become a Category 4 by Monday morning before hitting the Caribbean islands.
Storm warnings are in effect for southeast Caribbean islands as Hurricane Beryl is forecast to become an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm by Monday, with the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami calling it a “very serious situation.”
On Sunday morning, the NHC reported Beryl had sustained winds of 155 miles per hour with stronger gusts, upgrading the storm to a Category 3 hurricane, which is classified as having winds between 111 and 129 miles per hour that can cause extensive damage.
Sunday morning’s NHC advisory warned that Beryl is set to bring “destructive hurricane-force winds and life-threatening storm surge” to the Windward Islands, including Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadine Islands, Grenada and Tobago, early Monday. The NHC said, “This is a very serious situation developing for the Windward Islands.”
The storm is forecast to become “an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane before it reaches the Windward Islands”, where it is expected to make landfall on Monday.
