Tropical Storm Chris forms in Gulf

Beryl is the first major hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season. It became a hurricane on Saturday afternoon and strengthened to a Category 4 on Sunday. With little wind shear and record-warm ocean temperatures, strengthening has happened quickly.

Beryl is the strongest June hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin and the earliest Category 4 on record in the Atlantic basin.

It is moving quickly toward the eastern Caribbean islands. The Windward Islands will see serious impacts like heavy rain, damaging winds and potentially dangerous storm surge and flooding on Monday.

Beryl is expected to ride along a ridge of high pressure which will keep it heading westward in the next few days. It will move west-northwestward through the Caribbean Sea through this upcoming week. By late this week, wind shear may increase in the western Caribbean Sea. This would likely cause the storm to weaken.