NORFOLK, Va. —
Hurricane Beryl
The first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Beryl, became the first MAJOR hurricane of the season Sunday. It was a Category 4 hurricane Sunday afternoon, making Beryl the earliest Category 4 hurricane on record.
The storm weakened a bit Sunday night, but early Monday strengthened again slamming through the Windward Islands.
As of the 5:00 p.m. Monday advisory from the National Hurricane Center, Beryl is a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph, gusting to 185 mph.
The eye of Beryl made landfall at 11:15 AM on Carriacou Island into the eastern Caribbean.
Models suggest Hurricane Beryl will continue on a west-northwestward track through the Caribbean and may impact Jamaica and possibly the Yucatan Peninsula later this week. An increase in mid-level westerly shear is forecast by midweek, and this should cause some weakening while Beryl moves across the central and northwestern Caribbean Sea.
Invest 96-L
There is a bit less confidence that a tropical wave moving through the central tropical Atlantic will become our next named storms. Chances are still good that the system will develop. But the chances of development identified by the NHC went from 60% down to 50% over the next seven days.
Environmental conditions appear marginally conducive for additional development of this system, and a tropical depression could form by the middle part of this week while it moves generally westward at 15 to 20 mph across the central and western tropical Atlantic.
Chris? We hardly got to know you.
Invest 94L developed into Tropical Depression #3, which then became Tropical Storm Chris late Sunday evening. The storm almost immediately made a landfall as a weak tropical storm. By the 8 a.m. EDT update Monday, NHC had downgraded Chris to a depression over land.
At 11 a.m. EDT Chris was downgraded to a remnant low.
It will continue to weaken over land, but still produce life-threatening flooding tropical rains and possible landslides as the rain reaches higher terrain.
We are keeping close tabs on all the developments in the tropics, so continue to check back with us on 13News Now for updates.