When is Hurricane Beryl expected to make landfall in Texas?

(NewsNation) — Hurricane Beryl, which killed astatine slightest 8 radical successful its way crossed the Caribbean, is expected to deed Texas by Monday greeting but could diminish to a tropical tempest by the clip it hits the U.S., forecasters predict.

Beryl, the archetypal hurricane of the 2024 season, is presently being classified arsenic a Category 3 hurricane with winds reaching 120 mph. arsenic it has made its mode toward the United States. However, according to Brian James, Nexstar Weather Center main meteorologist, the tempest appears to beryllium weakening arsenic it continues to way person to the U.S. confederate border.

However, what the tempest does implicit the Gulf of Mexico arsenic it approaches Texas is the biggest focus, forecasters say.

James said that the tempest does not look to beryllium arsenic organized arsenic it erstwhile was and is showing signs of weakening. Beryl is expected to marque landfall sometime precocious successful the U.S. implicit the play and into aboriginal morning, erstwhile it could attack parts of confederate Texas, James said.

Most of the forecast models foretell that Beryl volition proceed to inclination toward Texas but is expected to weaken to a tropical tempest arsenic makes its mode crossed the Gulf of Mexico. The tempest could make backmost to a Category 1 hurricane erstwhile it gets backmost implicit the Gulf, James said connected NewsNation’s "Morning successful America".

The biggest question, James said, is however overmuch the tempest volition fortify arsenic it moves crossed the Gulf of Mexico and approaches the confederate portion of Texas by aboriginal Monday.

Forecasters foretell that Beryl volition deed onshore astir Belize oregon Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Thursday nighttime oregon Friday greeting if the high-pressure country of the tempest remains strong.

Accuweather meteorologists said that though the hazard of nonstop impacts has remained debased successful areas crossed parts of Florida and Louisiana, the hazard intensifies arsenic it approaches parts of Texas, including Corpus Christi and Brownsville, USA Today reported.

“That confederate information of the Texas seashore is the portion we person to truly watch,” Accuweather meteorologist Jonathan Porter told the newspaper.