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Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Grenada

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Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Grenada

Hurricane Beryl has made landfall on the Caribbean island of Carriacou after becoming the earliest storm of its strength to form in the Atlantic, fueled by record warm waters.

Carriacou is one of the islands of Grenada, where officials said winds increased up to 150mph (240km/h), blowing off roofs and causing other damage.

“This is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation,” the National Hurricane Center said.

Hurricane warnings were in effect for Barbados, Grenada, St Lucia, Tobago, and St Vincent and the Grenadines as thousands of people hunkered down in homes and shelters hoping for the best
It’s going to be terrible,” Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, said ahead of the storm as he urged people to stay indoors “and wait this monster out”.

The last strong hurricane to hit the south-east Caribbean was Hurricane Ivan nearly 20 years ago, which killed dozens of people in Grenada.

Beryl was 125 miles (200km) east and south-east of Grenada earlier on Monday. It had maximum sustained winds of 120mph (193km/h) and was moving west at 20mph. It was a compact storm, with hurricane-force winds extending 35 miles from its center.

A tropical storm warning was in effect for Martinique and Trinidad. A tropical storm watch was issued for Dominica, Haiti’s entire southern coast, and from Punta Palenque in the Dominican Republic west to the border with Haiti.

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