Hurricane Beryl is the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin and is only the second Category 5 storm recorded in July since 2005, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The storm made landfall in the Windward Islands on Monday and is currently heading towards Jamaica, who is under a Hurricane Warning.
The Cayman Islands also under Hurricane Watch.
Also the earliest-ever Category 4 and Category 5 hurricane, Beryl has hit the Grenadine Islands, Carriacou Island and Grenada on Monday, killing one person confirmed. Homes were ripped apart, hundreds of miles completely shut down.
“In half an hour, Carriacou was flattened”, said Grenada’s Prime Minister.
Streets from St. Lucia island south to Grenada were littered with shoes, trees, downed power lines and other debris. Banana trees snapped in half and cows lay dead in green pastures with homes made of tin and plywood tilting precariously nearby, reports the AP.
The hurricane had sustained wind speeds of 165 miles per hour.
It is expected to hit south-east Mexico at the end of the week.
Beryl strengthened from a tropical depression to a major hurricane in only 42 hours.
Six other Atlantic hurricanes have done this in recorded history, with hurricanes coming about once a year.
