Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on Grenada’s Carriacou island in the Caribbean

Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, made landfall this Monday as a powerful Category 4 hurricane on the Caribbean island of Carriacou, which is part of Grenada. National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States.

“The eye of Hurricane Beryl reached Carriacou Island,” The NHC noted on the X Network, alerting residents of the area to high-risk weather conditions with winds that will rapidly increase in intensity.

The United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that “extremely dangerous” Hurricane Beryl made landfall south of the Windward Islands this Monday as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with “life-threatening” winds and storm surge.

The federal agency indicated that the storm’s eye wall is already moving upward with maximum sustained winds of 220 kilometres per hour Cariobaku Island.

The NHC urged residents of the Grenadine Islands and Cariobacu Island to not leave their shelters as winds from Beryl, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, would rapidly increase within the cyclone’s eyewall.

During this, Copa America can breathe a sigh of relief

With Hurricane Beryl forecast to not make any headway toward the United States, extreme temperatures will continue to be the dominant trend heading into the next games that enter the knockout stage.

Category 3 Beryl is now moving westward across the Southern Antilles toward Mexico, where it is expected to make landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Only a sudden change in weather conditions would cause Beryl to divert its course toward the northern Gulf of Mexico, in which case it could affect both Florida and the region. Houston

In Texas, tournament locations.

Although Beryl does not look like a threat, he will continue to be the protagonist of the high temperatures that have dominated the Copa America so far and that have left more than one anecdote, such as the one in which an assistant referee fainted during a match. Peru-Canada in Kansas City At 40 degrees.

In Austin (Texas), which will host the Costa Rica-Paraguay match tomorrow in a roofless stadium, the maximum temperature is expected to be 39 degrees, while in Santa Clara (California), where they will play Brazil and Colombia Even without a roof the temperature can reach 37 degrees.

Temperatures will be more extreme for the quarterfinal matches to be played next Saturday in Las Vegas (Nevada) and Phoenix (Arizona), in a location yet to be defined, where thermometers are expected to read 47 and 46 degrees respectively. In addition, the matches are scheduled during peak heat hours.

However, the two stadiums, Allegiant and State Farm, are covered and air conditioned, so neither players nor fans should suffer from heat stroke upon entering the venue.

At the other two crossings, Argentina-Ecuador in Houston on Thursday and Venezuela-Canada in Dallas on Friday, temperatures will be high but not extreme.

(With information from AFP and EFE)