From US National Hurricane Center
Hurricane Beryl became a Category 3 storm on Sunday morning as it churned toward the southeast Caribbean.
As of 7 a.m., Jamaica Time, Beryl was located about 420 miles east-southeast of Barbados.
It was upgraded to a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph and was moving west at 21 miles per hour.
Hurricane warnings are already in effect in Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, and St. Vincent & The Grenadines.
Tropical storm warnings are in effect for Martinique and Tobago, while a tropical storm watch is in effect in Dominica.
The Miami-based US National Hurricane Center has warned: "This is a very serious situation developing for the Windward Islands."
The center said that Beryl was "forecast to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge … as an extremely dangerous hurricane."
Beryl is on track to move across the Windward Islands early on Monday as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane before traveling through the southeastern Caribbean on Monday night and Tuesday. It is forecast to begin affecting Jamaica on Wednesday.
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