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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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Hurricane Beryl has claimed at least one life in Jamaica after wreaking havoc across the Caribbean, a spokeswoman for the country's disaster management agency told the US broadcaster CNN late on Wednesday. A woman died in the north-west of the Caribbean island after a tree fell on her house, the spokeswoman said. Rescue teams in the capital, Kingston, were also searching for a 20-year-old who had fallen into a gully and been swept away by the floodwaters, The Gleaner newspaper reported on Wednesday. The latest casualties come in addition to the eight lives claimed thus far by the hurricane in ...
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Hurricane Beryl has brushed Jamaica after it has already killed several people and razed entire islands to the ground in its destructive path through the Caribbean. The centre of the Category 4 storm was moving near Jamaica's southern coast on Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of 215 kilometres per hour, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Beryl was temporarily upgraded to a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 - the highest level - late on Monday, but has since lost some of its intensity. According to the island's meteorological service, Beryl was "about to begin moving away fr...
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Jamaica is bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Beryl, which has already killed several people and razed entire islands to the ground in its destructive path through the Caribbean. According to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), the eye of the storm will likely pass over Jamaica on Wednesday, bringing life-threatening winds and storm surges. The outer winds of the hurricane were already causing heavy rain on the Caribbean island early on Wednesday. "I am now declaring the whole of Jamaica to be a disaster area ... for the next seven days," Prime Minister Andrew Holness said in a national ...
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Tourists and residents on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula are preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Beryl. Mexican authorities say more than 380,000 holidaymakers are currently still in the region's popular holiday resorts such as Cancún and Tulum. People are stocking up on water and food, local media reported, while windows are being covered with wooden planks. Emergency shelters are ready, National Coordinator of Civil Protection Laura Velázquez said. Thousands of soldiers and police have been deployed. Classes are being cancelled in some areas on Thursday and Friday. The harbours will be closed...
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Jamaica is bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Beryl, which has already killed several people and razed entire islands to the ground in its destructive path through the Caribbean. According to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), the eye of the storm will likely pass over Jamaica on Wednesday, bringing life-threatening winds and storm surges. The outer winds of the hurricane were already causing heavy rain on the Caribbean island early on Wednesday. "I am now declaring the whole of Jamaica to be a disaster area ... for the next seven days," Prime Minister Andrew Holness said in a national ...
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Feature image of avocados via Canva Pro. In Samuel Beckett's “Waiting for Godot,” often described as the play in which nothing happens, the two main characters basically talk to each other under a leafless tree while awaiting the arrival of the mysterious Godot, who never shows up. The Caribbean in hurricane season should be so lucky. Instead, characters — because it often feels like an apocalyptic movie scene — huddle under shelter, too apprehensive to talk much as they await the arrival of the storm du jour, which almost always shows up. For these islands on the frontline of the climate cris...
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Jamaica is bracing itself for the arrival of Hurricane Beryl, which has already killed several people in its destructive path through the Caribbean. According to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), Beryl's eye will pass over Jamaica or close to it during the day on Wednesday, bringing life-threatening winds and storm surges. The outer winds of the hurricane will reach Jamaica before dawn on Wednesday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said. "I am now declaring the whole of Jamaica to be a disaster area ... for the next seven days," Holness said in a national address. An island-wide curfew woul...
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