Burly Beryl is now a Cat 4 storm!

6-30-24. 2:15pm. This Tropical Update is brought to you by Davy Ranch Supply in Yorktown, TX. davyranchsupply.com

Burly Beryl is now a Cat 4 hurricane with 130mph winds. In the short-term Beryl will continue to head west and looks to hit the Yucatan Peninsula on Friday morning. Where it goes from there is still a guess, with some models forecasting it to go "poof", others taking it into Mexico, and a couple bringing it into Texas. At this point, we will just have to keep watching for updates and see when or if the models come into some sort of agreement.

Below is the latest from the NHC:

At 200 PM AST (1800 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Beryl was located
near latitude 10.9 North, longitude 55.6 West. Beryl is moving
toward the west near 21 mph (33 km/h). A continued quick westward to west-northwestward motion is expected during the next few days. On the forecast track, the center of Beryl is expected to move across the Windward Islands Monday morning and across the southeastern and central Caribbean Sea late Monday through Wednesday.

Maximum sustained winds are near 130 mph (215 km/h) with higher gusts. Beryl is an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Beryl is expected to remain a category 4 hurricane as it moves through Windward Islands.

Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 30 miles (45 km) from
the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 115miles (185 km).

The minimum central pressure based on data from the NOAA and Air Force Hurricane Hunters is 960 mb (28.35 inches).