The “potentially catastrophic” Hurricane Beryl The storm has reached Category 5 status in the eastern Caribbean Sea, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported Monday. “It is expected to bring Life-threatening winds and storm surge in Jamaica later this week,” the NHC said on its website.

The Prime Minister of the island of Grenada, Dickon Mitchell, said on Monday afternoon that Beryl hit the country causing ““major damage” on the islands of Carriacou and Petite Martiniquewhere the eye of the Category 4 hurricane entered, with maximum sustained winds of 240 kilometers per hour (150 mph).

The American president, Joe Bidensaid on Monday that his Administration is “ready to help Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Americans” and “ensure the security of all American citizens.”

He also explained that the hurricane’s progress is being closely monitored and that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “have resources and supplies ready to help the region.”

In the hurricane season in the Atlantic basin, which began on June 1, so far there have been three tropical storms, Alberto, Beryl and ChrisChris formed Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall overnight in the town of Lechuguillas, a town in the southern Mexican state of Veracruz.

This year the Atlantic will have a well above average hurricane season, with the possibility of up to 13 hurricanes, Of these, up to seven may be of major category, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States.