SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Hurricane Beryl plowed toward the southeast Caribbean today as local people were urged to rush and finish preparations ahead of the anticipated landfall overnight of the “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm — the first ever recorded in June.
The US National Hurricane Center has warned people that Beryl — presently churning in the Atlantic Ocean around 250 miles southeast of Barbados would remain an “extremely dangerous Category 4 storm” when it approaches populated islands in the southeast Caribbean Monday.
It said that all precautionary measures should be taken immediately and local people must listen emergency officials.
It stated Beryl would bring “potentially disastrous hurricane-force winds, a life-threatening storm surge, and damaging waves” to the Windward Islands, a cluster of islands including Martinique, Grenada, Saint Lucia and among others.
The Grenadines, St. Vincent and Grenada were at the highest risk of being at the center of the storm’s core start early Monday, the NHC stated.
Saint Lucia, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago and Grenada were all under hurricane warnings, the NHC advisory stated, while tropical hurricane warnings were in effect for Martinique and farther along the storm’s path, in southern Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Emergency has been declared in Tobago, that make up Tobago and Trinidad, with schools ordered closed on Monday, top official announced.
