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Hurricane Beryl hits category 5 [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2024-07-02  

Hurricane Beryl, already a record-breaker, strengthened to category 5 overnight. The storm's 160mph winds are swirling their way through the Caribbean on their way toward the continent; it's expected to weaken from here.

Beryl becomes the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record, beating Hurricane Emily from July 16, 2005.

That year went on to be the second-most intense hurricane season on record. Emily and now Beryl are the only two Category 5 hurricanes in the month of July.

Hurricane Beryl was already the strongest June hurricane, the easternmost hurricane to develop in the month of June and the earliest Category 4 storm on record. Records go back to the 1800s.

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