What you need to know about Hurricane Beryl
- Beryl is now a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph.
- The storm is predicted to remain an "extremely dangerous major hurricane."
- The center of Beryl will move quickly across the southeastern and central Caribbean Sea through Tuesday and is forecast to pass near Jamaica on Wednesday.
- Today's data still shows it staying south of Florida.
A low-pressure system more than 1,000 miles east-southeast of the Windward Islands became the second tropical depression of the Atlantic Hurricane season Friday afternoon.
On Monday at 11 p.m., the system, now a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 hurricane, is moving west-northwest at 22 miles per hour in the eastern Caribbean.
ABC Action News meteorologist Jason Adams said it is the earliest Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic Basin in recorded history.
According to ABC Action News meteorologist Greg Dee, the island of Grenada is likely to see the biggest impacts from the storm.
A hurricane warning is in effect for Jamaica.
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the south coast of the Dominican Republic from Punta Palenque westward to the border with Haiti and the south coast of Haiti from the border with the Dominican Republic to Anse d'Hainault.
The ABC Action News weather team is tracking tropical developments in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Watch the video for the latest Tracking the Tropics update.
Latest Tropical Update
July 2nd