Hurricane Beryl updates: Tulum hit by category 2 storm
Hurricane Beryl roared ashore on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula near the resort town of Tulum as a Category 2 storm early Friday, whipping trees and knocking out power after leaving a trail of destruction that killed at least 11 people across the Caribbean. The storm has now been downgraded to category 1.
Here's the latest.
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- Jul 02, 2024, 10:52 PM GMT
Hurricane Beryl downgraded to Category 4
Beryl has been downgraded to a Category 4, as expected, with winds of 155mph now.
Beryl will continue to weaken as it moves through the Caribbean, but is still expected to be a major hurricane upon impact with Jamaica in the next 24 hours.
Trail of devastation
As the storm barreled through the Caribbean Sea, rescue crews in the southeast Caribbean fanned out across the region to determine the extent of the damage that Hurricane Beryl inflicted after landing on Carriacou, an island in Grenada, as a Category 4 storm.
Three people were reported killed in Grenada and Carriacou and another in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, officials said. Two other deaths were reported in northern Venezuela, where five people are missing, officials said. Some 25,000 people in that area also were affected by heavy rainfall from Beryl.
One fatality in Grenada occurred after a tree fell on a house, Kerryne James, minister of climate resilience, environment and renewable energy, told The Associated Press.
