Tag Archives: Hurricane Beryl

The Associated Press reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday said he’s demanding an investigation into the response of the utility that serves the area as well as answers about its preparations for upcoming storms. “Power companies along the Gulf Coast must be prepared to deal with hurricanes, to state the obvious,” Abbott said at his first news conference about …

CNN reports: Half a million Houston-area homes and businesses may not have their power restored until next week amid sweltering summer heat, even as many in the region struggle to access fresh food, air conditioning and safe drinking water. More than 1 million power customers in southeast Texas – mainly between Galveston and north of Houston – are still without …

NBC News reports: More than 1.7 million customers in Texas were still without power Wednesday morning, depriving many of air conditioning during a dangerous heat wave, 48 hours after Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the Gulf Coast. The National Weather Service office in Houston said: “With power outages continuing across southeast Texas, the lack of air-conditioning will aggravate the risk …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas is receiving federal aid for Hurricane Beryl later than needed because state leaders were slow to request an official disaster declaration from the White House, President Joe Biden told the Houston Chronicle Tuesday. With Gov. Greg Abbott out of the country on an economic development trip in Asia, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has served as …

The Austin Statesman reports: Millions of Texans are without power Tuesday after Hurricane Beryl made its third and final landfall near Matagorda early Monday. Rainfall brought by Beryl caused near-record flooding in the Houston area, raising some bayous, like the White Oak Bayou and Buffalo Bayou, nearly 24 feet in the span of nine hours Monday. City officials say dangerous …

The Texas Tribune reports: Hurricane Beryl has knocked out power for more than two million Texas customers, as of 9 a.m. Monday, based on estimates from PowerOutage.us and CenterPoint Energy. Outages are most extensive in the Houston area and coastal counties including Matagorda, where Beryl landed as a Category 1 hurricane at approximately 4 a.m. Monday morning. Significant outages are …

USA Today reports: Hurricane Beryl made landfall along the Texas coast as a Category 1 storm early Monday, forcing the closure of major oil ports, flight cancellations, and a warning it would be a deadly storm for communities hit. By the time it made landfall near Matagorda around 4:30 a.m., winds had increased to 80 mph, according to the National …

The Weather Channel reports: H​urricane warnings have been extended along parts of the Texas coast ahead of Tropical Storm Beryl. Flooding rainfall, storm surge inundation, high winds and tornadoes are all threats. Beryl is centered in the western Gulf of Mexico and is moving toward the northwest. Beryl is beginning to reorganize and is predicted to intensify en route to …

Austin’s ABC affiliate reports: Texas officials are urging people to stay prepared — and not panic — ahead of Beryl. In a briefing on Friday afternoon, acting Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd said it is too early to know Beryl’s exact path and where it will make landfall but people should still plan …

The Houston Chronicle reports: The chance that Hurricane Beryl could come ashore in deep South Texas is becoming more of a reality now. Earlier this week, the National Hurricane Center had been forecasting that Beryl would most likely make landfall on the northeast coast of Mexico, but as the most recent model data has come in, Beryl’s projected path is …

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 …

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports: Hurricane Beryl’s track beyond the next three days is getting increasingly challenging to predict, and the “cone of uncertainty” once the storm enters the Gulf shifted north Tuesday afternoon to include Texas. The Category 5 storm had winds of 155 mph at 5 p.m. CST Tuesday and is expected to weaken some due to wind …

CNN reports: Hurricane Beryl roared across the Windward Islands on Monday as an extremely dangerous Category 4, delivering catastrophic winds, intense rainfall and life-threatening storm surge. Beryl made landfall shortly after 11:00 a.m. EDT on Grenada’s Carriacou Island in the Caribbean Sea with max winds of 150 mph. It is the strongest known hurricane to pass through the Grenadines, according …

Axios reports: Hurricane Beryl, which formed Saturday evening, rapidly intensified into a major Category 4 storm Sunday, and is nearing the Windward Islands Monday morning as a Category 3 major hurricane. The storm is rewriting hurricane history. Its early formation, rapid intensification and location are all record-breaking. Hurricane Beryl is expected to bring “Potentially catastrophic hurricane-force winds” and “a life-threatening …

CNN reports: Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, intensified into a “very dangerous” Category 3 storm on Sunday morning as it churned toward Barbados and the Windward Islands, promising destructive hurricane-force winds and life-threatening storm surge, according to the National Hurricane Center. The National Hurricane Center says Beryl is expected to be an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 …

USA Today reports: Tropical Storm Beryl formed Friday evening in the Atlantic east of the Windward Islands and could become Hurricane Beryl by Sunday as it moves westward, the National Hurricane Center said. It becomes the second named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, formally turning into a tropical storm about 1,100 miles southeast of the Windward Islands at …