Hurricane Beryl rapidly intensified to a major hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean east of the Windward Islands on Sunday morning.\u00a0 At 8:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Beryl was located at latitude 10.6\u00b0N and longitude 53.9\u00b0W which put the center about 420 miles (675 km) east-southeast of Barbados.\u00a0 Beryl was moving toward the west at 21 m.p.h. (33 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 115 m.p.h. (185 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 140 m.p.h. (225 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 968 mb.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Warnings were in effect for Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Tobago, and St. Vincent and the Grenadine Islands.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for Martinique.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A Tropical Storm Watch was in effect for Dominica.<\/span><\/p>\n A U.S. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft found that Hurricane Beryl had rapidly intensified to a major hurricane on Sunday morning.\u00a0 Beryl was a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.<\/p>\n A circular eye with a diameter of 25 miles (40 km) formed at the center of Beryl’s circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Hurricane Beryl.\u00a0 Storms near the core generated strong upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the hurricane in all directions.\u00a0 The removal of large amounts of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease rapidly.<\/p>\n The circulation around Hurricane Beryl was relatively small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 20 miles (30 km) from the center of Beryl’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 80 miles (130 km) from the center of Hurricane Beryl.<\/p>\n The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Hurricane Beryl was 20.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 5.4.\u00a0 The Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 26.0.<\/p>\n Hurricane Beryl will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Beryl will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern part of an upper level ridge over the central tropical Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will produce easterly winds that will blow toward the top of Beryl\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 The winds in the lower levels of the atmosphere are also blowing from the east and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Hurricane Beryl will continue to intensify during the next 24 hours. Beryl could continue to intensify rapidly.<\/p>\n Hurricane Beryl will move around the southern side of a high pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Beryl toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Beryl will move quickly toward the Windward Islands.\u00a0 Beryl will approach Barbados and Tobago by Sunday night.\u00a0 Hurricane Beryl will affect St. Lucia, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadine Islands, and Martinique on Monday.<\/p>\n Hurricane Beryl will be a major hurricane when it reaches the Windward Islands.\u00a0 Beryl will cause major damage on some of the Windward Islands.\u00a0 Hurricane Beryl will also drop heavy rain.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in some locations.\u00a0 Hurricane Beryl could cause a storm surge of up to 13 feet (4 meters) on the parts of islands where the wind blows the water toward the shore.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hurricane Beryl rapidly intensified to a major hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean east of the Windward Islands on Sunday morning.\u00a0 At 8:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Beryl was located at latitude 10.6\u00b0N and longitude 53.9\u00b0W which put the center about 420 miles (675 km) east-southeast of Barbados.\u00a0 Beryl was moving toward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[378,377,535,1067,537,712,3632,1070,538,536,731,711,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20482,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481\/revisions\/20482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}