Hurricane Beryl on track to slam southern Texas after killing at least 10 in the Caribbean: ‘Be ready to go’
Hurricane Beryl is expected to slam into southern Texas Monday morning with powerful winds of up to 85 mph — with forecasters warning locals Friday to “keep a close eye” on the wild weather.
The deadly storm was forecast to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near Corpus Christi at around 7 a.m. Monday after killing at least 10 people in the Caribbean over the past week, according to meteorologists.
“People should keep a close eye on it. There could be short-term changes and intensity fluctuations,” Fox Weather meteorologist Cody Braud told The Post.
“It 100% needs to be monitored.”
Texans should brace for the “worse impact” — including heavy rain and possible flash flooding — in areas as far north as Port Lavaca beginning Sunday night, Braud warned.
He advised residents to “have a plan” and “be ready to go” if the storm strengthens and local entities advise evacuating.
Earlier this week, Beryl pounded the southeast Caribbean as a Category 4 hurricane, leveling buildings and displacing hundreds of people.
It walloped southern Jamaica on Wednesday, bringing more than 12 hours of heavy rain and leaving more than 500 people without shelter.
As of Friday, the storm — which killed at least 10 people, according to BBC News — had struck Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula near the resort town of Tulum as a Category 2 hurricane.
With Post wires
