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July 2, 2024 at 10:04 PM. ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) — Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters Tuesday as a powerful Category 4 storm heading toward Jamaica after earlier crossing islands in ...
Jamaica was braced for impact as Hurricane Beryl approaches the Caribbean island as a Category 4 storm, ... with sustained wind speeds of nearly 145 mph as of 11 a.m. ET., when it was 75 miles ...
Beryl was about 100 miles west of Kingston, Jamaica and headed west-northwest at 20 mph. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 45 miles from the storm’s eye, putting Kingston within reach of the ...
Hurricane Gilbert was the strongest landfalling storm in Jamaican history. The island nation of Jamaica lies in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola.It frequently experiences the effects of Atlantic tropical cyclones that track across the Caribbean, with impacting storms often originating east of the Windward Islands or in the southern Caribbean between Nicaragua and Colombia.
The Greater Antilles were severely impacted by Hurricane Sandy, whose effects were spread over five countries, including Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, and included at least 120 deaths, primarily on October 24 and 25, 2012. Sandy formed in the central Caribbean Sea south of Jamaica on October 22 as part of the ...
By July 6, the system reached hurricane strength as it began traversing the Jamaica Channel. Around 18:00 UTC on July 7, the hurricane passed 30 mi (50 km) northeast of Port Antonio—60 mi (95 km) northeast of Kingston—with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph (195 km/h)—a Category 3 on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale.
Sheryl Lee Ralph is giving fans an update on the weather conditions in Jamaica ahead of Hurricane Beryl’s arrival on the Caribbean island.. On X, she shared a video of herself on camera as she ...
The storm passed to the south of most of the Greater Antilles, though its outer rain bands crossed many of the islands, and delivered hurricane-force winds to Jamaica. Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands were mostly spared, [112] though Hurricane Dean passed 50 to 60 mi (80 to 95 km) south of Jamaica as a Category 4 hurricane.