Earliest Ever Cat 5 Hurricane Now Threatening to Hit the U.S.
Reuters/Nigel R BrowneHurricane Beryl has been upgraded to a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm as it rolls through the southeastern Caribbean on a path that some models project may see it eventually make landfall in Texas.It’s a bad omen for what’s already expected to be a more active than usual hurricane season, which some forecasts estimate may go down as the busiest ever thanks to abnormally high ocean temperatures in the Atlantic.If Beryl were to strike the Lonestar State, models say it’d likely do so Sunday or early next week. There is some good news for Texans, however—Beryl is expected to be significantly weaker by then after likely plowing across Jamaica and through Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.Read more at The Daily Beast.