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GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) — Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters Tuesday as a powerful Category 4 storm heading toward Jamaica after earlier crossing islands in the southeast Caribbean ...
A tropical storm has maximum sustained winds of 39 mph (62.8 kph) up to 73 mph (117.5 kph). The storm was expected to be near Jamaica by late Monday and the Cayman Islands on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the center, which urged residents in Cuba and the Florida Keys to monitor the storm's progress.
A broad area of low pressure in the western Caribbean Sea is becoming better organized and the National Hurricane Center is initiating advisories on the system as of 4 p.m. Sunday.
The storm was located about 1,325 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph. Saturday updates: Helene death toll rises; power outages in the millions
The Miami-based forecaster also warned of dangerous storm surge and destructive waves in the Cayman Islands, and said Rafael would intensify further late on Tuesday before heading toward Cuba.
With an estimated 259 or more fatalities in Mexico and Jamaica, Charlie ranks among the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record in the 20th century. [26] Lord Beginner wrote a calypso song about the hurricane's landfall in Jamaica entitled "Jamaica Hurricane". The next hurricane to make landfall on Jamaica, Hurricane Gilbert, occurred 37 years ...
Hurricane Gilbert was the strongest landfalling storm in Jamaican history. The island nation of Jamaica lies in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola.It frequently experiences the effects of Atlantic tropical cyclones that track across the Caribbean, with impacting storms often originating east of the Windward Islands or in the southern Caribbean between Nicaragua and Colombia.
Jamaica was braced for impact as Hurricane Beryl approaches the Caribbean island as a Category 4 storm, with evacuations ordered ahead of forecasted life-threatening winds and floods.