Cuban authorities are keeping close watch on the dangerous Beryl, which has reached category five over the Eastern Caribbean, becoming the first major hurricane of the season.
A report published by Canal Caribe indicates that Beryl continues to move rapidly over the southern Caribbean Sea under atmospheric conditions that have allowed it to gain more organization and intensity.
The maximum sustained winds have increased to 270 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts, and its minimum central pressure has dropped to 935 hectoPascal, which classifies it as an intense Category Five hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
At 6:00 am, the center of Beryl was estimated at 14.7 degrees latitude north and 67.2 degrees longitude west, approximately located about 500 kilometers southeast of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and about 1080 kilometers east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica.
The hurricane continues to move west-northwest at a translation speed of 35 kilometers per hour.
Cuban meteorologists predict that in the next 12 to 24 hours, the system will continue on a similar course and speed of translation and could begin to gradually weaken during the day, although it will remain a hurricane of great intensity as it moves over the central Caribbean Sea, approaching Jamaica on Wednesday.
The next tropical cyclone alert for this system will be issued at 6:00 pm this Tuesday, as it could affect Cuba, which is immersed in a widespread crisis that could worsen with the passage of a hurricane.
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