On Monday Hurricane Beryl made landfall on Carriacou Island at 11:10 am local time. The National Hurricane Center said that the Category 4 storm triggered winds reaching 150 mph, up from 130 mph.
Accuweather said the hurricane is not expected to make landfall in the US but it advised people to stay alert. National Weather Service forecaster Eric Blake in a statement said the storm is expected to remain an extremely dangerous major hurricane.
‘Potentially catastrophic wind damage is expected where the core of Beryl moves through portions of the Windward Islands’, Blake warned.
An advisory by the weather service cautioned people in the Grenadine Islands and Grenada’s Carriacou Island not to step outside as wind speed was expected to further increase.
‘This is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation. Take action now to protect your life!’, the advisory warned. ‘Remain in place through the passage of these life-threatening conditions and do not venture out in the eye of the storm’.
Accuweather said the hurricane could become the strongest system to ever cross Grenada and portions of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
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