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Officials said the storm caused extreme damage to islands in Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. No storm has become a Category 5 this early in the season.
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Hurricane Beryl is an unusually strong storm for this time of year and it gained strength unusually fast. That's in part because of record high ocean temperatures driven by climate change.
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The earliest recorded Category 4 hurricane to hit the Atlantic Ocean is battering the Southeastern Caribbean, producing catastrophic winds and life-threatening storm surge.
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Many in the path of Hurricane Beryl prepare for the worst as the strongest storm on record this early in the season hits the Caribbean.
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"Beryl is the strongest Caribbean hurricane ever recorded this early in the season," an extreme storm chaser said.
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