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In Barbados, the hurricane damaged homes and littered streets with debris. Warnings were issued for Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This is the most powerful hurricane to hit the region since Hurricane Ivan 20 years ago.
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By Chandan KHANNA Saint-Georges (Grenade) (AFP) - L'ouragan Béryl, qui menace les Caraïbes, s'est à nouveau renforcé et a été relevé en catégorie 5 "potentiellement catastrophique" par le Centre national américain des ouragans (NHC) lundi en fin de journée, après avoir balayé plusieurs îles du sud-est des Caraïbes. "Béryl est désormais un ouragan de catégorie 5 potentiellement catastrophique" et "devrait encore être proche de l'intensité d'un ouragan majeur" avec des vents jusqu'à 260 km/h, en poursuivant sa trajectoire jusqu'à la Jamaïque qu'il doit atteindre mercredi, a déclaré le NHC dans u...
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At least one person has been killed after Hurricane Beryl wreaked havoc across Grenada, the prime minister of the south-eastern Caribbean island nation, Dickon Mitchell, said on Monday evening. Beryl made landfall in Carriacou, an island that is part of Grenada, on Monday morning as a category 4 hurricane but has since been upgraded to a "potentially catastrophic" category 5, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said late on Monday. Beryl brought maximum sustained windspeeds of 261 kilometres per hour and is "expected to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge to Jamaica later this week...
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Feature image via Canva Pro. At approximately 11:10 a.m. (UTC-4) on Monday, July 1, the eye of the record-breaking Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the tiny island of Carriacou in the Grenadines. An 11:15 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, said that the storm had continued to intensify, with maximum sustained winds of 241.4 kilometres (150 miles) per hour. The hurricane is currently moving in a west-northwesterly direction at a pace of about 32 km (20 miles) per hour. Other locations in the Grenadines, including Union Island and Petite Martinique have been experi...
Global Voices
Bridgetown (Barbados) (AFP) - Hurricane Beryl brought devastating winds and heavy rain to several Caribbean islands on Monday as the earliest-ever Category 4 storm churned westward. Carriacou Island, which is part of Grenada, took a direct hit on Monday morning from the storm's "extremely dangerous eyewall," with sustained winds at upwards of 150 miles (240 kilometers) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Nearby islands, including Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, also experienced "catastrophic winds and life-threatening storm surge" according to the NHC. Video obta...
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Bridgetown (Barbados) (AFP) - Hurricane Beryl plowed toward the southeast Caribbean early Monday as officials warned residents to seek shelter ahead of powerful winds and swells expected from the Category 3 storm. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned in its latest update that Beryl "is expected to remain an extremely dangerous major hurricane as its core moves through the Windward Islands into the eastern Caribbean". Its maximum sustained wind speed was hovering around 120 miles per hour (195 kilometers per hour) with higher gusts, said NHC. Beryl was at one point rated Category 4, an...
AFP
ABI imagery of Hurricane Beryl from NOAA's GOES-16 Satellite, June 28, 2024 via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Every year, from the beginning of June to the end of November, the Caribbean is on tenterhooks as the Atlantic hurricane season unfolds. The region, after all, has suffered devastating storms, which seem to have become more frequent and more intense as the climate crisis continues. This year, on Friday, June 28, an early-season weather system began to form in the southern Atlantic; two days later, Beryl had morphed into the most quickly organised Category 4 hurricane on record. An ...
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By Chandan KHANNA Bridgetown (Barbade) (AFP) - L'ouragan Béryl a touché lundi une île de Grenade, dans les Antilles, avec des vents "dévastateurs" allant jusqu'à 240 km/h, a alerté le Centre national américain des ouragans (NHC). "L'oeil de Béryl a touché l'île de Carriacou", dans le sud des Antilles, à 11H10 locales (15H10 GMT), a déclaré l'agence américaine qui avait sommé aux habitants d'"agir immédiatement" pour se protéger. Béryl est considéré comme extrêmement dangereux et ses vents se sont renforcés pour "atteindre 240 km/h", représentant une menace potentiellement meurtrière, selon le ...
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Bridgetown (Barbados) (AFP) - Much of the southeast Caribbean was on alert Sunday as Beryl strengthened into the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, with forecasters warning of an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Beryl -- currently churning in the Atlantic Ocean about 465 miles (750 kilometers) east of Barbados -- was expected to bring "life-threatening winds and storm surge" when it reaches the Windward Islands early Monday. Warning the storm is "continuing to rapidly intensify," the NHC forecast it would become an "extremely dangero...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - Much of the southeast Caribbean went on alert Saturday as forecasters projected Tropical Storm Beryl would rapidly strengthen over the next 24-48 hours to become the year's first hurricane. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Beryl -- currently situated in the Atlantic Ocean about 785 miles (1260 kilometers) southeast of Barbados -- would become a "dangerous major hurricane" by the time it reached the Windward Islands late Sunday into Monday. Barbados, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada all had hurricane watches in place, the NHC said. A major hurric...
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