Monday 4 AM Tropical Update: Hurricane Beryl expected in Gulf; another system behind it

Hurricane Beryl is the first major hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season. It became a hurricane on Saturday afternoon and strengthened to a Category 4 on Sunday. With little wind shear and record-warm ocean temperatures, strengthening has happened quickly.

Beryl is the strongest June hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin and the earliest Category 4 on record in the Atlantic basin.

It is moving quickly into the eastern Caribbean Islands. The Windward Islands will see serious impacts like heavy rain, damaging winds and potentially dangerous storm surge and flooding on Monday.

Beryl will move west-northwestward through the Caribbean Sea through this upcoming week. By late this week, wind shear may increase in the western Caribbean Sea. This would likely cause the storm to weaken.

By next weekend, it may be somewhere around Yucatan or the southern Gulf of Mexico. It appears high pressure over the southeast US next weekend could keep Beryl on a westward track away from the northern Gulf Coast. This set-up could send it into Mexico or perhaps southern Texas.

We have lots of time to watch it, and we'll continue to track it all week.

Aside from Beryl... Tropical Storm Chris formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico on Sunday night. This one is will move into Mexico early Monday.

And another area of possible tropical development is following right behind Beryl in the Atlantic. This will be something to watch in the long-term. The next name on the list is Debby.

[Bob-bbur]

It looks like when a hurricane first starts to form off the coast of Africa the military could find the largest planes they have as many as they can get together back and forth through it to break it up

[Tee]

Love how they add black into the hurricane graphics to make it more dramatic and sinister..
All Hurricanes are dangerous, take precautions and evacuate appropriately.
Watch your satellite imagery d/t what happened last year with Hurricane Otis in Acapulco when 6 hours of data went missing when a tropical storm over the ocean suddenly was a Cat 5 hurricane making landfall over Acapulco.

[Bizzare]

Then within several days.... "Looks like the path has changed and it's headed straight to the US coast!"

[Frosenshadow]

Saying it now it hitting Texas or Florida never seen a storm go in a straight line

[keshawnrichards]

Reporting from St. Vincent raining off and on. Winds are regular as of 6:30a.m.

[Chuck-jsdy]

A hurricane during hurricane season, has this ever happened before, the sky is falling right