{"id":2289951,"date":"2024-07-06T14:12:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meteorologists-fear-turns-to-grim-reality-as-record-smashing-storm-beryl-lumbers-toward-texas\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:19:41","slug":"meteorologists-fear-turns-to-grim-reality-as-record-smashing-storm-beryl-lumbers-toward-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meteorologists-fear-turns-to-grim-reality-as-record-smashing-storm-beryl-lumbers-toward-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorologists&#8217; Fear Turns to Grim Reality as Record-Smashing Storm Beryl Lumbers Toward Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeteorologists-fear-turns-to-grim-reality-as-record-smashing-storm-beryl-lumbers-toward-texas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2289951&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the unprecedented growth of Hurricane Beryl as it makes\u200c its way\u2062 towards southern Texas. The storm has intensified rapidly \u200cin \u200cthe warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, leading to concerns \u2063about potential\u2063 landfall as\u200b a\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doubling-spending-to-prepare-for-hurricanes-storms\/\" title=\"Biden Doubling Spending to Prepare for Hurricanes, Storms\">major hurricane<\/a>.\u200d Meteorologists are closely monitoring its \u200dprogress, with \u2063predictions\u200c of it reaching southern Texas as a strong Category 1 storm. The article highlights the\u2063 potential risks and\u2064 impacts of the storm, given its \u2063rapid intensification and \u2063the warm water conditions in the \u2062region. Experts\u2062 warn that\u2062 Hurricane Beryl&#8217;s\u200b development is a sign of the \u2062tumultuous hurricane season that lies ahead.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/ap-reports\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/ap-reports\/%20\"><span>The Associated Press<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 6, 2024 at 4:59am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>With its unprecedented tear through the ultrawarm waters of the southeast Caribbean, Hurricane Beryl turned meteorologists\u2019 worst fears of a souped-up hurricane season into grim reality. Now it\u2019s Texas turn.<\/p>\n<p>Beryl hit <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-beryl-tulum-mexico-resort-4b84e981f62bd53340a385fac42579f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico\u2019s Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 hurricane on Friday<\/a>, then weakened to a tropical storm. It\u2019s expected to reach southern Texas by Sunday night or Monday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-out-of-the-woods-yet-hurricane-ian-makes-landfall-again-in-south-carolina\/\" title=\"\u2018Not Out Of The Woods Yet\u2019: Hurricane Ian Makes Landfall Again In South Carolina\">regaining hurricane status<\/a> as it crosses over the toasty Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>National Hurricane Center senior specialist Jack Beven said Beryl is likely to make landfall somewhere between Brownsville and a bit north of Corpus Christi on Monday. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/florida-fire-department-issues-warning-ev-owners-seeing-hurricanes-trigger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hurricane<\/a> center forecasts it will hit as a strong Category 1 storm, but wrote, \u201cThis could be conservative if Beryl stays over water longer\u201d than expected.<\/p>\n<p>The waters in the Gulf of Mexico are warm enough for the early-season storm to rapidly intensify, as it has several times before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not be surprised if this is rapidly intensifying before landfall, and it could become a major hurricane,\u201d said Weather Underground co-founder Jeff Masters, a former government hurricane meteorologist who flew into storms. \u201cCategory 2 may be more likely, but we should not dismiss a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/apocalyptic-scene-reported-idalia-makes-landfall-category-3-hurricane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Category 3<\/a> possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beven said the official forecast has Beryl gaining 17 to 23 mph in wind speed in 24 hours, but he noted the storm intensified more rapidly than forecasters expected earlier in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-yemen-houthi-rebels-claim-latest-attack-cargo-ship-gulf-aden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caribbean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople in southern Texas now need to really keep an eye on the progress of Beryl,\u201d Beven said.<\/p>\n<p>Masters and University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-declares-widespread-emergency-as-hurricane-forecast-to-hit-florida\/\" title=\"DeSantis declares state of emergency as hurricane approaches Florida.\">hurricane center forecasters<\/a> have been very accurate in predicting Beryl\u2019s track so far.<\/p>\n<p>Already three times in its one-week life, Beryl has gained 35 mph in wind speed in 24 hours or less, the official weather service definition of rapid intensification.<\/p>\n<p>The storm zipped from 35 mph to 75 mph on June 28. It went from 80 mph to 115 mph in the overnight hours of June 29 into June 30, and on July 1 it went from 120 mph to 155 mph in just 15 hours, according to hurricane center records.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach, using a different tracking system, said he counted eight different periods when Beryl rapidly intensified \u2014 something that has only happened in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/florida-man-facing-federal-charges-attempting-cross-atlantic-ocean-hamster-wheel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlantic<\/a> in July two other times.<\/p>\n<p>MIT meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel doesn\u2019t give Beryl \u201cmuch of a chance\u2033 for another 35 mph wind speed jump in the Gulf of Mexico, but said it\u2019s a tricky thing to forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Beryl\u2019s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the figurative hot water the Atlantic hurricane belt can expect for the rest of the storm season, experts said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nyc-pride-parade-turns-disastrous-severe-thunderstorms-brawling-anti-israel-agitators-cause-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">storm<\/a> smashed various records even before its major hurricane-level winds approached the island of Carriacou in Grenada on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Beryl set the record for the earliest Category 4 with winds of at least 130 mph \u2014 the first-ever category 4 in June. It also was the earliest storm to rapidly intensify with wind speeds jumping 63 mph in 24 hours, going from an unnamed depression to a Category 4 in 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State University\u2019s Klotzbach called Beryl a harbinger.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters predicted months ago it was going to be a nasty year, and now they are comparing it to <a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.noaa.gov\/view\/noaa\/34048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">record busy 1933<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/tae\/climate_2005review_hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadly 2005<\/a> \u2014 the year of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/harsanyi-democrats-disturbing-post-hurricane-ritual-began-katrina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katrina<\/a>, Rita, Wilma and Dennis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the type of storm that we expect this year, these outlier things that happen when and where they shouldn\u2019t,\u201d McNoldy said. \u201cNot only for things to form and intensify and reach higher intensities, but increase the likelihood of rapid intensification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warm water acts as fuel for the thunderstorms and clouds that form hurricanes. The warmer the water and thus the air at the bottom of the storm, the better the chance it will rise higher in the atmosphere and create deeper thunderstorms, said the University at Albany\u2019s Kristen Corbosiero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when you get all that heat energy, you can expect some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-malfunction-stadium-fire-fireworks-show-sends-mortar-volley-directly-audience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fireworks<\/a>,\u201d Masters said.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic waters have been record warm since April 2023. Klotzbach said a high pressure system that normally sets up cooling trade winds collapsed then and hasn\u2019t returned.<\/p>\n<p>A brewing La Nina, which is a slight cooling of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide, also may be a factor. Experts say La Nina tends to depress high altitude crosswinds that decapitate hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/body><\/html><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unprecedented path of Hurricane Beryl through the warm waters of the southeast Caribbean has confirmed meteorologists&#8217; fears of a strong hurricane season. The storm, which hit Mexico&#8217;s Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm, is now expected to reach southern Texas. It is forecasted to regain hurricane status as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico and make landfall somewhere between Brownsville and Corpus Christi. Experts warn that Beryl could rapidly intensify before landfall, potentially becoming a major hurricane. The warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico provide the fuel for the storm&#8217;s growth, and forecasters are closely monitoring its progress. Beryl&#8217;s early and rapid intensification is a sign of the warm water conditions in the Atlantic and Caribbean, which experts believe will lead to a busy and intense hurricane season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2289952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Hurricane-Beryl.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5466,34089,34090,34091],"class_list":["post-2289951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fear","tag-meteorologists","tag-record-smashing","tag-storm-beryl"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Hurricane-Beryl.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}