Hurricane Beryl continues its move through the Caribbean
AccuWeather lead hurricane expert Alex DaSilva reports on the extremely dangerous Hurricane Beryl that is strengthening as it makes its way through the Caribbean.
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00:00Our top story today though is Hurricane Beryl barreling down in the Caribbean as an extremely
00:06dangerous hurricane this morning. All right the latest on the powerful storm it is moving now
00:11just about 30 miles north of the island of Tobago and it's moving towards St. Vincent
00:17in the Grenadines as well as Grenada and it is strengthening a little bit.
00:23That it is. AccuWeather was more than 24 hours ahead of all other known sources in producing
00:29that eyepath which was beating out the National Hurricane Center and that's a potentially
00:34life-saving forecast for the track map of Beryl which conveys the storm becoming a hurricane
00:39impacting the Caribbean this week and that's part of our goal to help keep you safer and provide
00:43you the most advanced notice so that you can make the best decisions for you and your family.
00:47This storm though like you said major hurricane very powerful still and will have more impacts
00:52beyond just the next few hours. There's the view from Aruba at this point in time it is quite
00:58quiet and they will miss out on the worst of this storm it goes to the north it is somewhat of a
01:02compact storm and we will be discussing that among other things with our hurricane expert that's who's
01:09joining me right now AccuWeather lead hurricane expert Alex Da Silva and Alex what can we say
01:14about this storm because we've seen some changes just with this most recent update at 8 a.m.
01:19We absolutely have the hurricane hunters are flying around in this storm right now and we just
01:23had the 8 a.m. eastern advisory come out from the national hurricane center the hurricane hunters
01:28have found category 4 winds yet again with inside Beryl right now as they've been flying around this
01:34morning so the upgrade has been made the storm has moved from a category 3 to once again yet a
01:39category 4 hurricane as it's barreling down on some of those islands down there in the lesser
01:44Antilles so that is the extreme concern only a few hours left last minute preparations must be
01:50underway at this point and beyond that this storm is kind of an interesting one because you mentioned
01:56that eyewall replacement structure and that's had some impacts on the physical shape of this storm
02:01too it certainly has these very powerful hurricanes undergo what we call an eyewall replacement cycle
02:07so essentially a new eyewall will actually form outside of the the main eyewall and essentially
02:13then it will choke the inner eyewall out and temporarily you'll get some weakening in the
02:17storm and that's what we saw yesterday this was a category 4 overnight it became a category 3
02:22during that eyewall replacement cycle now that that eyewall replacement cycle has been completed
02:27we typically see a bigger eyewall the winds expand outwards as you can see on this graphic here the
02:33the rain shield has expanded outward now that the eyewall replacement cycle has been completed
02:38and also the winds are starting to come back up this is back to a category 4 hurricane right now
02:43getting ready to cross the islands here in the next couple of hours and then it'll work its way
02:48through the caribbean and once it gets into the middle of the caribbean there's still some
02:52question marks with the actual track of this so the eyepath officially taking it towards the yucatan
02:57but at this point there's more dependent uh with this storm and that includes uh what's going to
03:03be over the u.s at that time yeah i think we're pretty highly confident at this point that over
03:07the next couple of days at least through mid to late week this thing's going to be taking a general
03:11northwestern path following an area of high pressure shoving it essentially in that direction
03:16so pretty confident there that it'll stay south of jamaica and move towards the yucatan peninsula
03:20now as we go into next weekend that's where the question marks arise can that high pressure stay
03:26strong if that high pressure stays strong this thing will just get shoved west into mexico and
03:30will keep the u.s away from any impacts however if that high pressure weakens just a little bit
03:35that can allow the system to turn a little bit more northwest and could bring the system a little
03:40closer to texas so we have a lot to watch here over the next couple of days and throughout the
03:44week um but either way very gusty winds coming through the caribbean uh pretty big impacts for
03:49the yucatan peninsula by the end of the week and real quickly i just want to point out there is a
03:54one more set up behind this so these islands might not have much of a break for us yeah
03:59unfortunately not you know we're seeing another storm potentially coming now the good news is
04:03we don't think that this is going to be a hurricane or any kind of major threat however
04:07with the islands just being impacted uh by barrel uh this tropical rainstorm will be coming through
04:12much of the same areas and it just won't take much to cause a lot of problems we think that
04:16rain will be the primary uh impact from this storm as it's likely to remain fairly weak in nature
04:22however we're concerned about mudslides and heavy rainfall as this will cross the islands
04:27uh wednesday into thursday aki weather lead hurricane expert alex de silva thank you again
04:32for joining us on aki weather early