A very dangerous situation developing as Hurricane Beryl heads toward Southeast Caribbean as a CAT 4

Barbados Tropical Weather

Important Takeaways:

  • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Beryl began pounding the southeast Caribbean on Monday as a powerful Category 4 storm after becoming the earliest storm of that strength to form in the Atlantic, fueled by record warm waters.
  • The storm was expected to make landfall in the Windward Islands late Monday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center.
  • Hurricane warnings were in effect for Barbados, Grenada, Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines as thousands of people hunkered down in homes and shelters. The last strong hurricane to hit the southeast Caribbean was Hurricane Ivan 20 years ago, which killed dozens of people in Grenada.

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