Beryl, a powerful hurricane blowing over the Caribbean attained the highest category

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned Hurricane BerylIt crosses the Atlantic and approaches Jamaica, feeling a “Dangerous Prototype” For reaching maximum intensity at an unexpected time of the year.

UN According to the National Weather Service, the arrival of a hurricane of this strength two weeks earlier than usual “may be a preview of a very active season with hazards in the entire Atlantic basin, which again shows. The need for early warning systems“.

Beryl is already down Four deaths: three in Grenada and one in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. However, officials speculated that there could be more casualties on these islands and on Cariopagu, where a Category 4 landslide hit on Monday.

As a result, the first hurricane to form in the Atlantic this season – a Significant destruction of buildings, roads and ships Several countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) were forced to suspend their annual meetings.

A maximum typhoon

Since its creation, air has gathered near the phenomenon 260 kilometers per hour Located 1,300 kilometers east-southeast of Kingston, the capital of Jamaica. He announced this National Hurricane Center (NHC) America defined as a hurricane “Potential Disaster”and noted that “it could bring life-threatening winds and storm surge to Jamaica this week.”

Thus, Beryl reached a force 5 (maximum on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which measures hurricanes by their wind strength) It is currently packing gusts of up to 165 kilometers per hour, according to measurements by the North American Institute.

Earlier, it had already had a major impact on Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, “smaller islands with little experience of dealing with Category 4 hurricanes,” the WMO pointed out. In the Prospect community in St. Vincent, damage reports have been added Roofs were torn off buildings, as well as power outages in other parts of the island. In turn, on Monday morning, vehicles were driving on a flooded pavement in Bridgetown (Barbados).

Unprecedented

Beryl is expected by the middle of the week, according to the NHC report Gradually loses intensityIt will still maintain hurricane force winds.

Reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warn that the frequency of extreme tropical cyclones, like other extreme weather events, is increasing. will increase with global warming.

Beryl developed into a cyclone from tropical depression Category 3 reached 4 within 48 hours At that approximate time, June was unprecedented for the WMO, although “in line with recent trends of rapid intensification” of these events.

Warnings to come

Beryl is expected to pass over the next few days Jamaica on Wednesday and Cayman Islands on Thursday. Also, a hurricane and tropical storm warning was recorded off the coast of Haiti From the Dominican Republic to the Haitian town of Anse de Hainault.

On the other hand, tropical storm warnings were reported for the southern coast of the Dominican Republic, from Punta Palenque to the west, bordering Haiti.

NHC meteorologists are warning of a hurricane Serious risk It will have a large volume as it advances over the eastern Caribbean “Some weakness” only on Tuesday night.. That way, they calculated that the center of the cyclone would be closer to the peninsula Yucatan (Mexico) on Thursday. at night.

The case of Venezuela

Heavy rains from Hurricane Beryl as it moves through Venezuela’s Caribbean Sea Heavy flooding in CumanacoaIn the northeastern state of Sucre, the Minister of Interior Relations, Justice and Peace confirmed this Tuesday. Remigio Ceballos. “As a result of heavy rains after the passage of Cyclone Beryl, River Manjanaras overflows In the municipality of Montes,” officially circulated on social networks.

The Venezuelan minister indicated that the situation must be faced.Health initiatives, medicines, food, drinking water, household appliances and reinforcements of firefighters and civil defense personnel for analysis, damage assessment and mitigation work.” In turn, the governor of Sucre state, Gilberto Pinto Blanco, indicated that he was already monitoring the situation in the emergency area.

Pinto Blanco told local media that six communities were the most affected by the floods, while people had to be evacuated by plane to a sector called La Fragua. “This is the result of the rainy season as a result of the hurricane near Venezuela, and continues to rain in the headwaters of the Manzanares River,” the governor added.

In an emergency zone in the northeast of Venezuela’s Caribbean, the accident blocked the route from other places to Cumanacoa, Xinhua news agency reported.