Weather & Science
Record-Breaking Hurricane Beryl Makes Landfall in Grenada
- Dangerous hurricane will sweep the Caribbean on Monday
- Storm will later track west toward Mexico and Belize
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Record-breaking Hurricane Beryl came ashore on Carriacou Island with house-wrecking winds as it keeps growing stronger, plowing through the Caribbean with the threat of $1 billion in damages.
Beryl’s winds reached 150 miles (241 kilometers) per hour as it came ashore at 11:10 a.m. New York time on Carriacou, the second largest of Grenada’s islands, the US National Hurricane Center said. A Category 4 hurricane, Beryl is just 7 mph below the threshold for becoming a Category 5 storm at the top of the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.