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Hurricane Beryl's eye as it made landfall on Carriacou on July 1, 2024. Imagery, which contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024 (acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel 2 satellite), is regulated under EU law (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 377/2014). Via Wikimedia CommonsSentinel2.png). By Holly Bynoe On July 1, an early and “unprecedented” storm, Hurricane Beryl, swept through my home islands of the transboundary Grenadines. Mayreau, Canouan, Union Island, Petit St. Vincent, Palm Island/Prune Island, the Tobago Cays, Petite Martinique and Carriaco...
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Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 storm, about to make landfall on Great Abaco in the Bahamas at 18:36 UTC on September 1, 2019. Image by NASA, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. This story was originally published by EW News, with the support of the Caribbean Climate Justice Journalism Fellowship, which is a joint venture between Climate Tracker and Open Society Foundations. An edited version is republished below with permission. By Vanessa Clarke There’s an emotional strain and reservation to a usually bubbly Shervante Nixon. It was a big ask to encourage the mother of one to recount one of ...
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At least seven people have died in Texas as Hurricane Beryl continues to move through the US state, according to media reports, while millions remain without power. It will likely take several days to restore the power supply, according to the operator. Some 2 million to 3 million households are affected, the chairman of the company said. Among the dead was a police officer in his car on his way to work in Houston, Mayor John Whitmire told a press conference on Monday. In the neighbouring state of Louisiana, one person also died as a result of the storm, the local sheriff's office reported. US...
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At least seven people have died in Texas as Hurricane Beryl continues to move through the US state, according to media reports, while millions remain without power. It will likely take several days to restore the power supply, according to the operator. Some 2 million to 3 million households are affected, the chairman of the company said. Among the dead was a police officer in his car on his way to work in Houston, Mayor John Whitmire told a press conference on Monday. In the neighbouring state of Louisiana, one person also died as a result of the storm, the local sheriff's office reported. US...
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At least seven people have died in Texas as Hurricane Beryl continues to move through the US state, according to media reports, while millions remain without power. It will likely take several days to restore the power supply, according to the operator. Some 2 million to 3 million households are affected, the chairman of the company said. Among the dead was a police officer in his car on his way to work in Houston, Mayor John Whitmire told a press conference on Monday. In the neighbouring state of Louisiana, one person also died as a result of the storm, the local sheriff's office reported. US...
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Four people have died in Texas as tropical storm Beryl continues to move through the state, the mayor of Houston said on Monday, while millions remain without power. It will likely take several days to restore the power supply, according to the operator. Some 2 to 3 million households are affected, the chairman of the company said. Meanwhile, a tornado in Jasper County, on the border with the state of Louisiana, destroyed about thirty houses. Beryl made landfall as a hurricane near the Texan town of Matagorda some 130 kilometres south-west of Houston early on Monday morning, but has since lost...
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Feature image created using Canva Pro elements. The following article was originally published by Global Voices contributor Emma Lewis on Substack. An edited version is republished here with permission. A Beryl is a rather lovely translucent mineral, sometimes green, sometimes blue, sometimes gold or pink. Beryl is an old-fashioned English girl’s name), after the gemstone mentioned above. The name’s origin is apparently from the Greek word “beryllos,” which means “colour of the sea.” All rather beautiful. Beryl is also the name of the second storm in the 2024 hurricane season. The waiting for ...
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Geneva (AFP) - The World Meteorological Organization, which is tracking Hurricane Beryl's deadly course through the Caribbean, told AFP that more storms with its hallmarks could be expected in the future. The WMO, the United Nations' weather and climate agency, said the record-breaking tropical cyclone intensified rapidly, picking up energy over a warmer Atlantic Ocean and developing into a system with lots of heavy rain. Anne-Claire Fontan, scientific officer at the WMO's tropical cyclone programme, said that Beryl signals a very active Atlantic hurricane season in 2024. How did Beryl develop...
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After Hurricane Beryl was moving away from Jamaica late Wednesday local time, the island discontinued its hurricane warning but kept a flash flood watch, authorities said. Prior to its impact, islanders had rushed to prepare after the powerful Category 4 storm had already claimed at least seven lives and caused significant damage in the southeastern Caribbean. The death toll has since risen to at least eight after one person was reported to have died in Jamaica. By late Wednesday, the storm's eye was about 161 km west of the capital Kingston as its core headed toward the Cayman Islands, accord...
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At least seven people in Jamaica have been killed and thousands of others are left assessing the damage after Hurricane Beryl hit the southern coast of the island in the early hours of Thursday. While Beryl was downgraded from a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 hurricane to a Category 4, it remains one of the most powerful ever to hit the country, bringing winds of up to 215 km an hour. Jamaica’s prime minister Andrew Holness has extended an island-wide curfew to 06.00 local time (11.00 GMT) on Thursday and a flash flood warning is also in effect. Since leaving the island nation, Beryl ha...
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