JAMAICA – Hurricane Beryl continues to churn westward and is now slowly weakening after becoming the earliest ever Category 5 hurricane in Atlantic Basin recorded history!
The hurricane winds peaked early Tuesday at 165 mph after passing the Windward Islands late Monday. There are few, if any, views of a hurricane more impressive than from inside the eye of the hurricane.
Video from the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters shows the classic stadium-effect of the eye wall. That massive wall of clouds that surrounds the clear and calm eye in the center. It is within the eye wall that those 165mph winds were reported…