Riviera Maya, Q.R. — Tropical Storm Beryl has gained strength and developed into Hurricane Beryl, the first of the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The system was forecast to develop into a hurricane for Sunday afternoon, however, conditions have proven conductive for an early development.
Meteorologists are predicting the system to reach a Category 3 status by early Monday morning. Beryl is forecast to remain a major hurricane at least until Tuesday afternoon at which time it could lose strength before slipping past the island of Jamaica as it moves northwest into the Caribbean Sea.
Meteorologist have its current trajectory heading toward the Caribbean where it will begin to near the coast of Quintana Roo late Thursday or early Friday. No one has yet said if Hurricane Beryl is expected to make landfall in Mexico.
However, predicted trajectories seem to indicate it could make landfall along Riviera Maya by next weekend. The Weather Channel has created a map track of possible routes Hurricane Beryl could take over the next six days.
Following it is another system that has a 70 percent chance of development. According to the NOAA “an area of low pressure located several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is producing an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
“Environmental conditions appear conducive for additional development of this system, and a tropical depression could form by the middle of next week while it moves generally westward at 15 to 20 mph across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic.”
