According to official reports, the hurricane only caused material damage in Mexico’s tourist-friendly Riviera Maya. Authorities are urging people to take precautions before it reaches the United States.
He hurricane Beryl It hit the tourist-friendly Yucatan Peninsula on Friday morning, causing serious material damage, and changed its course in the direction to Texas where he is expected to arrive on Sunday night.
The cyclone touched Mexican territory as Category 2 hurricane with winds of 175 km/hour that caused the fall of trees, poles and damage to the roofs of buildings, in addition to power outages in at least three municipalities in the state of Quintana Roo (southeast), reported the Civil Protection system.
No deaths from Hurricane Beryl
“Apparently there is no loss of life That is what matters most to us, that no one is affected,” said President Andrés Manuel López Obradorin his usual conference.
During the day, it was downgraded to a tropical storm and continued to weaken. However, the National Hurricane Center shares a somewhat alarming forecast for the following days, warning that it could regain hurricane status upon making landfall in Texas.
“There is an increasing risk of damaging hurricane-force winds and life-threatening storm surge across portions of northeastern Mexico and the lower and mid-Texas coast late Sunday and Monday,” the weather agency said.
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Hurricane Beryl, an unusual storm
Beryl is the First hurricane of the Atlantic seasonwhich runs from early June to late November. The weather event impressed experts with its intensity. Scientists believe that climate change, which causes higher water temperatures, favors these storms and increases the likelihood that they will intensify quickly.
On its way through the Caribbean left at least seven dead: three in Grenada, where the phenomenon made landfall on Monday; one in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and three in Venezuela, according to local authorities.
The US meteorological services classified it during its trajectory as a category 5, making it the earliest of this power on record. In May, the United States Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office (NOAA) had already warned that the hurricane season was shaping up to be “extraordinary,” with the possibility of four to seven hurricanes of Category 3 or higher.
Source: Ambito
