SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Beryl chugged toward the southeast Caribbean on Saturday as forecasters warned it was expected to strengthen into a dangerous major hurricane before reaching Barbados late Sunday.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tropical Storm Beryl chugged toward the southeast Caribbean on Saturday as forecasters warned it was expected to strengthen into a dangerous major hurricane before reaching Barbados late Sunday.
On Saturday, Beryl was located about 820 miles east-southeast of Barbados, with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph . It was moving west at 23 mph .Warm waters are fueling Beryl, with ocean heat content in the deep Atlantic the highest on record for this time of year, according to Brian McNoldy, University of Miami tropical meteorology researcher.
She noted that thousands of people are in Barbados for the Twenty20 World Cup cricket final, with India and South Africa playing in the capital, Bridgetown, on Saturday. “The development of a tropical storm this far east in the tropical Atlantic is uncommon, though not unprecedented,” Florida-based hurricane expert Michael Lowry wrote in a forecast. “Only five named storms on record have formed in the tropical Atlantic east of the Caribbean.”Mark Spence, manager of a hostel in Barbados, said in a phone interview that he was calm about the approaching storm.
An average Atlantic hurricane season produces 14 named storms, seven of them hurricanes and three major hurricanes.
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