Hurricane Beryl to become an "extremely dangerous" storm before reaching the Caribbean
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... Hurricane Beryl strengthened from a tropical storm into a "very dangerous" Category 3 hurricane over the weekend and is expected to grow even more powerful before it makes landfall along several Caribbean nations early this week, the National Weather Service says.

Forecasters are predicting that the massive storm system could become an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane before reaching the Windward Islands on Monday. ...

Beryl is an historic storm

A named storm this far east is unusual for June, John Cangialosi, a forecaster with the National Hurricane Center, wrote in an advisory Friday. "There have only been a few storms in history that have formed over the central or eastern tropical Atlantic this early in the year," he wrote.

Beryl is the third earliest Atlantic major hurricane on record behind Alma (1966) and Audrey (1957).

The storm is also noteworthy for how quickly it has intensified. Beryl went from a tropical depression to a major hurricane in just 39 hours. Sam Lillo, a weather researcher with the forecasting group DTN, said in a tweet that's only "been done 6 other times in Atlantic hurricane history. And the EARLIEST date this was achieved before was ... September 1."

Beryl's strengthening, location and forecast track are more indicative of storms in late August or September " not June. ...

Hurricane Beryl strengthens into a Category 4 storm as it nears the southeast Caribbean
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... Hurricane Beryl strengthened into what experts called an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm as it approaches the southeast Caribbean, which began shutting down Sunday amid urgent pleas from government officials for people to take shelter.

Hurricane warnings were in effect for Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Beryl's center is expected to pass about 70 miles (112 kilometers) south of Barbados on Monday morning, said Sabu Best, director of Barbados' meteorological service.

"This is a very serious situation developing for the Windward Islands," warned the National Hurricane Center in Miami, which said that Beryl was "forecast to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge." ...

Historic, powerful Hurricane Beryl to hit Windward Islands
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... Hurricane Beryl, which formed Saturday evening, has rapidly intensified into a major Category 4 storm and is expected to hit Barbados and the Windward Islands early Monday.

Why it matters: The storm is rewriting hurricane history. Its early formation, rapid intensification and location are all record-breaking. ...

Two comments:

1) formation to Cat 4 in (less than?) two days?

2) yeah, the path it is taking for this time of the hurricane season.

This Does Not Bode Well.