Hurricane Beryl, after impacting Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a category 2 hurricane and briefly weakening to a tropical storm, is expected to regain strength and make landfall along the southern Texas coast as soon as Sunday night. Authorities along the Texas coast are bracing for the storm’s arrival by issuing storm surge and hurricane warnings. Acting Texas Governor Dan Patrick has issued a preemptive disaster declaration for 40 counties in anticipation of the storm, which meteorologists forecast could hit near Corpus Christi as a high-end category 1 or category 2 hurricane. This event marks an unusual record for the Atlantic hurricane season, with Beryl becoming the strongest storm documented so early in the year, a phenomenon partly attributed to unusually warm ocean temperatures.
Storm surge and hurricane warnings have been issued for much of the Texas coast.
Hurricane Beryl hit Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a category 2 hurricane and then weakened to a tropical storm.
The storm is expected to regain hurricane strength in the Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters before making landfall in southern Texas.
Acting Texas Governor Dan Patrick has issued a preemptive disaster declaration for 40 counties.
Meteorologists expect the storm to make landfall near Corpus Christi as a high-end category 1 or category 2 hurricane.
This year marks a record for the earliest occurrence of such a strong storm in the Atlantic hurricane season.
Unusually warm ocean temperatures, 3-4°C above average, have contributed to the storm’s strength, suggesting a link to climate change.
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