Tropical Storm Beryl is barreling toward Texas and is expected to make landfall near the coastline and eastern part of the state on Monday morning.
Tropical Storm Beryl is steaming toward Texas, with the deadly storm expected to again become a hurricane before it makes landfall near state’s southeastern coastline early Monday.
The storm, killed 11 as it tore through the Caribbean last week, after growing the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record. It weakened to a tropical storm as it passed over Mexico’s Yucatan Pennisula on Friday. But Beryl is forecast to strengthen again as it moves over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico toward Matagorda Bay, just north of Corpus Christi, Texas.
Meteorologists predict it will be at least a Category 1 storm, with wind speeds of 75 mph to 95 mph, but it could ramp up as high as a Category 3, with wind speeds of 111 mph to 129 mph, which would make it the strongest storm since the devastating Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
The Texas Gulf Coast saw heavy rain and coastal flooding last month with Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.
