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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 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,
It’s important to remember there was extreme weather before climate change,
Alex Hall—a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)—tells TIME I am encouraging all Jamaicans to take the hurricane as a serious threat,
Prime Minister Andrew Holness said in a statement As a nation, we are coming to grips with the devastation” in Carriacou and Petite Martinique
Mitchell said at a news conference There may well be more fatalities,
Gonsalves said in an address We’re just hoping for the best, ... but we’re still prepared.”
Darien told The Washington Post Devastating hurricane-force winds, life-threatening storm surge, and damaging waves are expected,
the Hurricane Center wrote When we speak to those nations that have created this climate crisis based on the burning of fossil fuels, we have yet another clear and overwhelming evidence of the fact that we are constantly facing an existential threat to our way of life,
My sense is that we’re going to see more stronger storms this year,
With these rapid intensification storms, it cuts your time frame down,
Will all the storms be intense? Possibly not,
said Marjahn Finlayson, a climate scientist from the Bahamas All signs are hinting that this season is going to rival 2005,
said Ben Kirtman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies at the University of Miami Beryl continues moving quickly west-northwestward across the central Caribbean Sea … [and is] expected to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge to Jamaica on Wednesday.”
On Tuesday morning, the U.S. National Hurricane Center/NOAA issued a public advisory stating Interests elsewhere in the northwestern Caribbean, including the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, should closely monitor the progress of Beryl. Additional watches or warnings will be required later [Tuesday].”
The advisory went on to say Drone video captured by storm chaser @bclemms shows scenes of devastation on the island of Carriacou after Hurricane Beryl slammed into the coast as a Category 4 storm,
AccuWeather wrote with video, which shows roofs ripped from buildings, roads covered in debris and decimated trees We really can't rule out the storm trying to glide northwards over the Gulf of Mexico, it really depends on where it hits the Yucatan peninsula,
Hurricane expert Dr Levi Cowan of Tropical Tidbits added