Hurricane Beryl hits Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula

A hurricane that wreaked havoc in the Caribbean struck Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

Category 2 Hurricane Beril battered the region’s coastline on Friday morning, endangering 2 million people and the tourist hotspots of Cancun and Tulum.

As the storm hit the country’s southeastern coastline, beaches were closed and thousands of troops deployed to assist.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned people in the area to take shelter due to “life-threatening conditions” that the hurricane will bring on the day.

Across the Caribbean, at least 10 people are known to be dead and many more are missing, with roofs torn off buildings and thousands of homes without power.

Mexican authorities have taken steps to prepare the coastline for hurricanes.

Schools have been closed, hotel windows have been boarded up and emergency shelters have been set up in areas bearing the brunt.

People in Cancun are rushing to supermarkets to stock up, and some people’s shelves are already empty.

More than 8,000 troops from the Army, Air Force and National Guard have been deployed to the Yucatan Peninsula to provide support.

There were people patrolling the beach Thursday, urging people to leave.

Mara La Zema, the governor of the eastern peninsula state of Quintana Roo, urged residents to “please stay home” in a video released overnight.

Hundreds of tourists have been evacuated from hotels along the coast and more than 3,000 people have fled from the coastal island of Holbox, according to local authorities.

More than 300 flights were canceled or delayed.

“We just want to get home safely and pray the same thing for everyone else,” stranded American tourist Anita Lewis told Reuters on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Virginia Reboral, a Mexican tourist visiting Tulum, told AFP: “They canceled our flight and we had to pay for the extra two nights.”

Hurricanes are common around the peninsula, and the official storm season runs from June to late November.

King Charles III said he was “deeply saddened” by the devastation caused by the hurricane in the Caribbean, affecting several Commonwealth islands.

The Royal Navy has dispatched an aid ship to the Cayman Islands.

Hurricane Beryl Wednesday hits jamaica hard After causing huge damage to other Caribbean countries.

The Red Cross said its teams had seen first-hand the threat to life caused by the rainfall in Beryl.

“The damage done in the aftermath of the hurricane is massive and heartbreaking,” Caribbean Red Cross disaster manager Rhea Pierre told reporters via video link from Trinidad and Tobago.

Hurricane Beryl not only caused destruction, but also broke records.

Although it was classified as a Category 2 hurricane on Friday, it had previously been classified as a higher category.

This is the first NHC hurricane ever to reach Category 4 in June, and the earliest hurricane to reach Category 5 (the highest category) in July.

The record-breaking nature of Cyclone Beryl has brought the role of climate change into the spotlight.

The causes of each storm are complex, making it difficult to fully attribute specific cases to climate change.

But unusually high sea surface temperatures are thought to be Key reasons why Cyclone Beryl was so powerful.

Beryl will weaken rapidly over land and is expected to be downgraded to a tropical storm.

The storm will then move across the Gulf of Mexico and move toward northeastern Mexico and southern Texas by the end of the week.

The storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane again by the time it makes landfall again Sunday night.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott told people near the state’s Gulf Coast to “make emergency plans to take care of yourself and your loved ones.”

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned that the North Atlantic could see as many as seven major hurricanes this year, compared with an average of only three per season.