The Tropical Storm Beryl will be strengthened this weekend in the Gulf of Mexico and will become a hurricane again before hitting parts of northeastern Mexico and the Texas coast from Sunday night to Monday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecast on Saturday.
The US institution warned that for these areas there is a “increasing risk” of destructive hurricane force winds and storm surges”potentially fatal”, and asked its inhabitants to stay up to date with new recommendations and follow the instructions of local authorities.
“Flash flooding is possible in urban areas and may be of considerable magnitude in parts of the Gulf Coast and in East Texas from Sunday night through midweek“, NHC also warned.
The Texas coast has been under hurricane alert since yesterday due to the advance of Berylwhich made landfall early Friday morning as a Category 2 hurricane north of Tulum, in the Mexican Caribbean, and was downgraded to a tropical storm.
Beryl It was then located 0 kilometers (0 miles) east of Progreso, Mexico, and 935 kilometers (580 miles) east-southeast of Brownsville, Texas, NHC said.
The system had maximum sustained winds of 100 kilometers per hour (65 miles per hour) and was moving west-northwest.
He Beryl centerwhich reached category five as a hurricane in the Caribbean, made landfall early Friday morning near Tulum and its trajectory pattern shows that the Texas coast is exposed to its impact.
Berylthe first hurricane of the Atlantic season and the earliest Category 4 storm on record, moving at a speed of 24 kilometers per hour (15 miles per hour).
In the Hurricane season In the Atlantic basin, which began on June 1, three named tropical storms have formed so far: Alberto, Beryl and Chris.
This year the Atlantic will have a Hurricane season well above average, with the possibility of up to 13 hurricanes, of which up to seven could be major, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States.
Source: Gestion
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