Hurricane Beryl grew into an "extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane" on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said, making it the first ever Atlantic hurricane to reach Category 4 strength in June.
The upgraded status came just hours before Beryl was expected to make landfall along several Caribbean nations early Monday morning.
Previously, the record for the earliest Atlantic hurricane during the calendar year was held by Hurricane Dennis on July 8, 2005, Colorado State University meteorologist Phil Klotzbach said in a post on X.
Hurricane warnings were in effect Sunday for Barbados, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadine Islands, Grenada and Tobago. Martinique was under a tropical storm warning, while Dominica, Trinidad and parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic faced a tropical storm watch.
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