On Saturday, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season developed into a Category 1.
The hurricane, named Beryl, has sustained winds of approximately 75 mph as of Saturday afternoon, having grown from 60 mph on Friday when it was still a tropical storm. Beryl is expected to continue to strengthen as it travels west across the eastern Caribbean, potentially experiencing “rapid intensification.”
According to Eddie Walker, AccuWeather’s Senior Storm Warning Meteorologist, “Steering breezes will guide the system to cross the Windward Islands of the eastern Caribbean from Sunday night to Monday, then waters near Jamaica during the middle of next week and perhaps to the shores of Central America or southeastern Mexico at the end of next week.”
Another AccuWeather meteorologist noted that storms in this longitude and latitude are uncommon for this time of year, with only “seven…
