Hurricane Beryl remains a category 4 and is moving over the eastern Caribbean Sea.

"It should continue to strengthen as it moves through the Caribbean Sea this week," says the National Hurricane Center of the United States.

Trayectoria de Beryl © Facebook/INSMET
Beryl's trajectoryPhoto © Facebook/INSMET

After making landfall in Granada this Monday, Hurricane Beryl, the first of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, continued to be a dangerous cyclonic system that meteorologists are paying close attention to.

In its fifth tropical cyclone advisory, the Cuban Meteorological Institute (INSMET) points out that "during today, Hurricane Beryl has affected the islands of the southern Lesser Antilles Arc as a high-intensity hurricane. Despite some fluctuations in intensity, its maximum sustained winds are 240 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts, and its central minimum pressure has dropped to 944 hectoPascals, therefore it remains an intense category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with a maximum of five."

The Cuban meteorological entity also indicates that "Beryl is already moving over the southeastern part of the eastern Caribbean Sea, with its central region estimated at six o'clock this afternoon at 13.3 degrees north latitude and 63.5 degrees west longitude, a position that places it approximately 710 kilometers east of Aruba and about 1510 kilometers east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica."

The translational speed is 33 kilometers per hour, moving in a direction close to west-northwest.

The forecast for the evolution of Beryl is that "some weakening should occur once it enters the central Caribbean Sea in the coming days."

The forecast models continue to place this powerful hurricane outside Cuban territory; however, the INSMET indicates that "due to its evolution and future trajectory, close monitoring of this tropical cyclonic system is being maintained."

The National Hurricane Center of the United States confirms that this hurricane "should continue to be powerful as it moves through the Caribbean Sea this week. There is a tropical storm warning in effect for the southern coast of Hispaniola, and a hurricane alert is in effect for Jamaica."

This Monday, a reconnaissance plane from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States captured impressive images of the powerful Hurricane Beryl.

In the video posted on the social network X, a part of the atmospheric phenomenon can be clearly observed.

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