Hurricane Beryl Live Updates: Beryl Heads Towards Jamaica | Hurricane In Barbados LIVE |NI8G
The storm devastated several Caribbean islands this week and is expected to bring dangerous storm surge to Jamaica by Wednesday afternoon.
Jamaica is bracing for a dangerous and difficult day on Wednesday as Hurricane Beryl, a Category 4 storm that swept through the Caribbean this week and killed at least seven people, is expected to pass near or over the island in the afternoon. Forecasters warned that strong winds and heavy rains may bring life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
Beryl’s well-defined eye, the calm area typically devoid of clouds in the center of a hurricane, was filled in early Wednesday morning on weather satellite imagery, a sign that the major hurricane may continue to weaken from its Category 5 peak on Tuesday. Forecasters still face challenges predicting how much its intensity will decrease as it churns toward the Yucatán and how much it may restrengthen as it emerges into the Gulf of Mexico this weekend.
As Hurricane Beryl churns toward Jamaica, the islands devastated in its path reckoned with the scale of the destruction on Wednesday.
In Grenada, satellite imagery showed flattened houses and buildings without roofs. Grenada’s islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique bore the brunt of the damage. Officials said roughly 98 percent of the islands’ buildings had been destroyed.
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