{"id":172055,"date":"2024-07-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/?p=172055"},"modified":"2025-02-04T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:33:00","slug":"hurricane-beryl-reaches-category-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/2024\/07\/01\/hurricane-beryl-reaches-category-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Beryl reaches Category 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/07\/01\/hurricane-beryl-landfall-live-news-updates\/74261881007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane Beryl has made headlines recently as it became the earliest Category 5 hurricane in recorded history<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/07\/01\/hurricane-beryl-landfall-live-news-updates\/74261881007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>. Here are some key details about the storm:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/07\/01\/hurricane-beryl-landfall-live-news-updates\/74261881007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Category<\/strong>: Beryl reached Category 5 status, with sustained winds of 160 mph<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/07\/01\/hurricane-beryl-landfall-live-news-updates\/74261881007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/07\/01\/hurricane-beryl-landfall-live-news-updates\/74261881007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Path<\/strong>: The hurricane made landfall on Grenada\u2019s Carriacou Island and is expected to move across the southeastern and central Caribbean Sea<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/07\/01\/hurricane-beryl-landfall-live-news-updates\/74261881007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/07\/01\/hurricane-beryl-landfall-live-news-updates\/74261881007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Impact<\/strong>: The storm has brought life-threatening winds, dangerous storm surges, and heavy rainfall to the Windward Islands<sup>1<\/sup><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/07\/01\/hurricane-beryl-landfall-live-news-updates\/74261881007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power outages and significant damage have been reported in affected areas<sup>1<\/sup><\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>there is a historical context to early-season storms like Hurricane Beryl. While early-season hurricanes are relatively rare, they are not unprecedented. Here are some key points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2021-04-19-hurricane-season-early-start-2015-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Frequency<\/strong>: Historically, early-season storms (those forming before June 1) have occurred about once every four to five years on average<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2021-04-19-hurricane-season-early-start-2015-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2021-04-19-hurricane-season-early-start-2015-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">However, there has been an increase in the frequency of these storms since the 1990s<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2021-04-19-hurricane-season-early-start-2015-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Notable Early-Season Hurricanes<\/strong>: Some notable early-season hurricanes include:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2021-04-19-hurricane-season-early-start-2015-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hurricane Alex (2016)<\/strong>: Formed in January, south of the central Azores<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/first-atlantic-hurricane-formation-where-when\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2021-04-19-hurricane-season-early-start-2015-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hurricane Alma (1970)<\/strong>: Developed in May, north of Panama<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/first-atlantic-hurricane-formation-where-when\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2021-04-19-hurricane-season-early-start-2015-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hurricane Able (1951)<\/strong>: Strengthened into a hurricane off the coast of Florida in May<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/first-atlantic-hurricane-formation-where-when\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2021-04-19-hurricane-season-early-start-2015-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Climate Factors<\/strong>: The increase in early-season storms has been linked to various climate factors, including warmer sea surface temperatures and changes in atmospheric conditions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2021-04-19-hurricane-season-early-start-2015-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Historical Impact<\/strong>: Early-season hurricanes have shaped the course of history in various ways. <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2021-04-19-hurricane-season-early-start-2015-to-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For example, Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which struck in late August, led to significant changes in emergency management and building codes in the U.S.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/tracing-history-united-states-through-history-hurricanes-180975436\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Beryl has made headlines recently as it became the earliest Category 5 hurricane in recorded history1. Here are some key details about the storm: there is a historical context [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Hurricane Beryl: Earliest Category 5 in Recorded History","_seopress_titles_desc":"Discover key details about Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 5 storm, its path, impact on the Caribbean, and historical context of early-season hurricanes.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172055"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172065,"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172055\/revisions\/172065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcolepticnerd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}