Hurricane Beryl Lashes Jamaica As Category 4 [VIDEO]

July 3, 2024 Climate Change, Weather

USA Today reports:

All of Jamaica was about to feel the power of Hurricane Beryl on Wednesday as the eye of the Category 4 storm reached the island of 3 million people, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its 5 p.m. ET advisory. The hurricane’s outer bands had lashed Jamaica earlier Wednesday after hurtling across warm waters in the Caribbean.

By early afternoon, Beryl and its 140-mph winds had closed to within 45 miles south of the Jamaican capital of Kingston. Beryl is forecast to pass over Jamaica as a major hurricane before unloading “devastating hurricane-force winds, life-threatening storm surge and damaging waves” across the Cayman Islands as early as Wednesday night.

The Associated Press reports:



Wind-whipped rain pounded the island for hours as residents heeded authorities’ call to shelter until the storm had passed. Power was knocked out in much of the capital.

Before Beryl’s arrival in Kingston, people had earlier boarded up windows, fishermen pulled their boats out of the water and workers dismantled roadside advertising boards to protect them from the lashing winds.

“We are very concerned about a wide variety of life threatening impacts in Jamaica,” including storm surge, high winds and flash flooding, said Jon Porter, chief meteorologist at AccuWeather. Porter called Beryl “the strongest and most dangerous hurricane threat that Jamaica has faced, probably, in decades.”

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