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Beryl moved through the Lesser Antilles as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, battering structures, uprooting trees, and causing near-total power and communication outages across much of the island chain. [109] Hardest hit were Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada.
Many places in Beryl's track were still recovering from hurricanes Irma and Maria, which hit the Eastern Caribbean in September 2017; structures were left deficient to strong winds. Beryl prompted multiple islands in the Lesser Antilles to issue warnings and watches, including a hurricane watch as it was initially expected to pass through the ...
Tropical Storm Beryl (1982) – passed just south of Brava Island, Cape Verde and dissipated north of the Windward Islands Tropical Storm Beryl (1988) – formed over Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and drifted into the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall at New Orleans
Beryl is now only the second storm on record to reach the intensity of category 5 in July, after Emily did so in mid-July 2005. Earlier on Sunday, it became the earliest storm to reach category 4 ...
Beryl hit the southern section of a string of islands known as the Windward Islands as the strongest hurricane recorded this early in the season. READ MORE: Eastern Caribbean whalers follow a 139 ...
Beryl pummeled everything along its path, ripping up roofs of schools, crumbling homes and stripping trees of almost every leaf on the 0.46 square miles (1.2 square kilometers) of this island of ...
The worst storm to ever hit the island was Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. Gilbert was the strongest, deadliest, costliest and most destructive storm in Jamaica's history. It killed 45 people and ...
The hardest hit islands saw 98% of all homes and buildings destroyed, and massive damage to communications and the electrical grid. “Complete devastation and destruction of agriculture.