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Weather projections forecast a major hurricane to hit Jamaica, possible as early as the morning of Wednesday 3 July. International and domestic airports are closed from 2200 local on Tuesday 2 July, and will only reopen when assessed safe to do so. You should follow and monitor local and international weather updates from the US National Hurricane Center and follow the advice of local authorities including any evacuation orders. See Extreme weather and natural disasters.”
In the update the Foreign Office said To circumvent the path of hurricane Beryl and forecasted inclement weather, we have made the decision to take a safer, alternative route,
the cruise line said in a letter to passengers The safety of our guests, crew and communities we visit is our top priority,
We left out on Harmony of the Seas this afternoon and they changed our itinerary to avoid the storm...cruise director said captain and crew will just find some great sunny weather and plan plenty of activities for everyone to enjoy onboard for 3 sea days,
one passenger wrote on Facebook This is the reason I NEVER cruise during Hurricane season,
You want to be in a safe place where you can ride out the storm by nightfall (Tuesday),
We've had virtually no communication with Carriacou in the last 12 hours except briefly this morning by satellite phone,
Mitchell told a news conference It's startling to see this happen before your eyes, but it's also kind of in line with what the science tells us we might expect in a warmer world,
It's hard to communicate how unbelievable this is,
The possibility that there may be more fatalities remains a grim reality as movement is still highly restricted.”
We are most concerned about Jamaica, where we are expecting the core of a major hurricane to pass near or over the island,
said Michael Brennan, the director of the NHC, in an online briefing Disasters on a scale that used to be the stuff of science fiction are becoming meteorological facts, and the climate crisis is the chief culprit,
Everyone, including those living alone, should take these necessary steps now,
We are very concerned. We’ve experienced back in 2004 a hurricane similar to this one. It was more devastating. It took down about 90 to 95 percent of our houses and so it was really hard to build back. And so having experienced a hurricane of that magnitude and then yesterday again having to experience a Category 4 hurricane with threats of more to come, it raises our anxiety,
Whether in my homeland of Carriacou, hammered by Hurricane Beryl, or in the heatwaves and floods crippling communities in some of the world’s largest economies, it’s clear that the climate crisis is pushing disasters to record-breaking new levels of destruction,
I’ve seen nutmeg, I’ve seen cocoa, I’ve seen coconut – I’ve seen just about everything destroyed by this powerful catastrophic hurricane,
Beryl is expected to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge to Jamaica on Wednesday and the Cayman Islands Wednesday night and Thursday,
The best strategy to reduce the likelihood of these types of extremes is to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases,
Climate change is stacking the dice in favor of events like that,
A lot of our infrastructure was built for a different climate than we’ve seen today,