Bridgetown/St. George’s: Hurricane Beryl strengthened into a Category 5 storm late Monday evening after sweeping across several islands in the southeastern Caribbean, dumping heavy rains and unleashing devastating winds. Beryl is now the earliest Category 5 storm ever recorded in the Atlantic and has developed into a “potentially catastrophic” hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 260 kilometers per hour, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
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