Hurricane Beryl tracker: See projected path of Category 5 storm
After barreling through the Caribbean as a Category 5 hurricane Monday night, Hurricane Beryl is expected to pass through Jamaica on Wednesday as a Category 4 storm, bringing life-threatening winds and storm surge to the island, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Beryl weakened slightly Tuesday and has sustained winds of 145 mph, the NHC said Wednesday morning. The storm is moving toward the west-northwest at 20 mph, according to the NHC, and is expected to turn more toward the west Wednesday night or Thursday.
The storm is forecast to pass near or over Jamaica on Wednesday and near or over the Cayman Islands Wednesday night or early Thursday, according to the NHC. Beryl is then expected to move over the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico early Friday.
Beryl is expected to begin weakening Tuesday, but the NHC says it will still be "near major hurricane intensity" as it passes Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Additional weakening is expected thereafter, the NHC says, though Beryl is expected to remain a hurricane in the northwestern Caribbean.
Beryl tore through the Windward Islands on Monday after making landfall on Grenada’s Carriacou Island as a Category 4 storm at 11:10 a.m., according to the hurricane center. The hurricane had 150 mph winds when its eye made landfall on Carriacou.
Power was out throughout Grenada and residents were advised to shelter in place as Beryl brought down power lines and tore away roofs. The last major hurricane to reach the country's shores was Ivan, which caused widespread devastation with winds of more than 135 mph in 2004.
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Hurricane Beryl tracker: See projected path of Category 4 storm as it heads toward Jamaica
Chances of Invest 96L forming have dropped
Elsewhere in the Atlantic, the NHC is tracking showers and thunderstorms a storm associated with a storm designated as Invest 96L.
The system is currently located about 1,000 miles east-southeast of the Windward Islands and the NHC says environmental conditions are only "marginally conducive" for additional development as it moves across the central and western tropical Atlantic.
"Interests in the Lesser Antilles should still monitor the progress of this system, with heavy rainfall possible this week," the NHC said in an advisory Tuesday morning.
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Hurricane Beryl path tracker
This forecast track shows the most likely path of the center of the storm. It does not illustrate the full width of the storm or its impacts, and the center of the storm is likely to travel outside the cone up to 33% of the time.
Hurricane Beryl spaghetti models
Illustrations include an array of forecast tools and models, and not all are created equal. The hurricane center uses only the top four or five highest performing models to help make its forecasts.
Atlantic storm tracker
Contributing: Susan Miller, John Bacon, Jorge L. Ortiz, Dinah Voyles Pulver & Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY; Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY-Network Florida
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