Satellite image of Hurricane Beryl over Texas, USA at 12:43 UTC on 8th July 2024. At this point Hurricane Beryl was a category 1 hurricane and had bee
Satellite image of Hurricane Beryl over Texas, USA at 12:43 UTC on 8th July 2024. At this point Hurricane Beryl was a category 1 hurricane and had been over Texas for around 3 hours. Beryl first made landfall on the island of Carriacou, Grenada, on the afternoon of the 1st July as a category 4 storm with sustained winds of 240 kilometres per hour. On the 2nd July Beryl peaked as a category 5 hurricane, the earliest in the Atlantic hurricane season that a hurricane has reached category 5 since records began. As of 25th July 2024, 64 confirmed deaths have been attributed to Beryl, as well as estimated damages of over 6 billion US dollars. Image obtained by the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16 (GOES-16).
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