Hurricane Beryl, after rapidly intensifying into a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph, has weakened overnight to a Category 3 system
The storm is the earliest Category 4 storm on record.
The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center projects the storm to hit the Windward Islands early Monday.
As for where Beryl heads after that, forecaster Matt Lanza at The Eyewall wrote:
”The storm will likely remain sufficiently south of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola to preclude serious damage there, but it could threaten Jamaica on Wednesday and Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula toward the end of the week. After that? Movement into the Gulf of Mexico is possible, but after this point our confidence starts to decrease.”
There are two other systems being monitored by the National Hurricane Center.
