Category 5 Hurricane Beryl Takes Aim at Caribbean

Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-ever Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, is threatening Jamaica with at least $1 billion in losses and damage as it brings dangerous storm surges, high winds and flooding rains. Beryl reached Category 5 strength – the top of the Saffir-Simpson scale — late Monday after devastating the Caribbean’s Windward Islands. The storm, 625 miles (1,006 kilometers) east-southeast of Kingston, maintained that power with winds of 165 miles per hour, according to an 8 a.m. New York time advisory from the US National Hurricane Center. Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-02/hurricane-beryl-nears-category-5-strength-on-caribbean-track?sref=omvmmwIg -------- Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://trib.al/KM4k5RA Subscribe to Bloomberg Originals: https://trib.al/dJv9Uw8 Bloomberg Quicktake brings you global social video spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world. Connect with us on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bloomberg Breaking News on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BloombergQuicktakeNow