People buy wood to protect their windows as they prepare ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Beryl, in Cancun, Mexico June 30, 2024. REUTERS/Paola Chiomante
Hurricane Beryl is closing in on the southeastern Caribbean, and government officials are pleading with people to take shelter from the dangerous Category 3 storm.The Associated PressPeople buy wood to protect their windows as they prepare ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Beryl in Cancun, Mexico, on Sunday. Beryl was the earliest Category 4 Atlantic hurricane on record, but has since slowed to a Category 3 storm.
A tropical storm warning was in effect for Martinique and Trinidad. A tropical storm watch was issued for Dominica, Haiti's entire southern coast, and from Punta Palenque in the Dominican Republic west to the border with Haiti. It took Beryl only 42 hours to strengthen from a tropical depression to a major hurricane — a feat accomplished only six other times in Atlantic hurricane history, and with Sept. 1 as the previous earliest date, hurricane expert Sam Lillo said.
Warm waters are fuelling Beryl, with ocean heat content in the deep Atlantic the highest on record for this time of year, said Brian McNoldy, a tropical meteorology researcher at the University of Miami.Forecasters expect an active Atlantic hurricane season in 2024The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is projecting 17 to 25 named tropical storms and hurricanes this year, the most it has ever forecasted in its May outlook.
Thousands of people were in Barbados for Saturday's Twenty20 World Cup final, cricket's biggest event, with Prime Minister Mia Mottley noting that not all fans were able to leave Sunday despite many rushing to change their flights.
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