[Update, 7/1/24:]
A high pressure system across most of the eastern U.S. is expected to keep Hurricane Beryl headed on a west-northwest trajectory through the Gulf of Mexico and into Mexico somewhere around the Yucatan peninsula, according to updates from the National Weather Service.
[Originial coverage, 6/30/24:]
There is no threat to the Northern Virginia region at the moment as Hurricane Beryl intensifies and prepares to cut a swath of destruction through the Caribbean.
But it is too early to tell what the hurricane's ultimate intentions are once it gets into the Gulf of Mexico. And if it decides to to take northerly turn and come inland along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Louisiana, the local region could feel some of the ramifications later in the week.
The National Hurricane Center says Beryl will be an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm when it arrives in the Windward Islands early Monday, bringing destructive winds and life-threatening storm surge. And it is expected to maintain hurricane status all through the week as it moves west-northwest over Jamaica and then, potentially, into Central America and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
And about 48 hours behind it is another, as yet unnamed, storm roiling across the Atlantic that has a significant potential for developing.
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