After destroying the Grenada Islands in the Caribbean Sea, a hurricane Beryl he strengthened further until he reached the category 5 and face Jamaica. According to which the National Hurricane Center (NHC) American, Beryl was located about 840 miles (1,355 km) east-southeast of Kingston with maximum sustained winds of 260 kilometers per hour.
“Beryl is now a potentially catastrophic Category 5 hurricane: intensity fluctuations are likely, but it is expected to be close to that high” as it moves towards Jamaica today (Tuesday), the NHC said in a statement.
Also alert i Mexico, where authorities have begun preparing for the expected arrival of Beryl on Thursday, according to the NHC, as a likely tropical storm. In a statement, the federal government asked authorities and the public “to be extremely careful.” “What worries us is that the basins are already saturated. With minimal rain, the rivers will rise,” said Cutberto Ruiz, head of meteorology at Oaxaca’s civil protection agency.
“The areas of Belize, the Cayman Islands, the Yucatan Peninsula, the northwestern Caribbean Sea and the southwestern Gulf of Mexico will have to monitor the evolution of Beryl”, writes the NHC in its latest report.
Beryl landed in the evening on theIsola Carriacou of Grenada in the Caribbean Sea with maximum winds of about 240 kilometers per hour. AND the strongest hurricane known to cross the Grenadinesaccording to NOAA data dating back to 1851. “Yes”widespread reports of destruction and devastation in Carriacou and Petite Martinique,” Grenada Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said at a news conference.
“In half an hour, Carriacou was put to the ground.” At least one death was reported in St. Vincent and hundreds of houses and buildings were damaged, the Prime Minister of the Grenadine Islands said this afternoon Ralph Gonsalves, noting that there could be more victims. Hurricane Beryl “left behind massive destruction, pain and suffering across our nation right now,” he said. Union Island, just north of Grenada, has been destroyed, reports indicate 90% of the houses were severely damaged or destroyed, said Gonsalves.