See where Hurricane Beryl is projected to head next

It is June and there's a Category 2 that's strengthening heading toward the Caribbean. It is early for this. We're talking a month or more ahead of schedule for a major hurricane and we're looking at it rapidly intensifying again. Today did that. Yesterday was a tropical storm and it very quickly became a hurricane. And we'll find it rapidly intensifying again today to become a major hurricane. Right now it's a Category 2 storm with 100 mile per hour wind gusts of 220 miles as it continues to work its way West. And it just being a hurricane already set a record for the farthest E that we've had a hurricane in June. Tropical Atlantic, once it hits that major status of a Category 3 storm, it would be the third earliest major hurricane in the Atlantic and the earliest major hurricane within 100 miles of Barbados. So again, way ahead of schedule. We typically don't see a storm like this until mid August or or early September. Here's a look at the rapid intensification becoming that Category 4 storm, maybe even by tonight. You see the hurricane warnings for the Windward Islands and it continues its track in the Caribbean Sea as we go through the next couple of days. Could maintain major status for parts of those islands. And again, when we're talking about Category 4 storms that have only been five Category 4 storms in July in this part of the tropics. So again, just setting records and it is because these ocean temperatures are incredibly warm. We're talking about ocean temperatures in the middle and upper 80s. This is more typical for mid to late August. We're not even in July yet. So these temperatures are just so warm. This is fuel and food for those hurricanes and that's what allows them to rapidly intensify. And as our oceans continue to get warm and stay warm, we do find that rapid intensification, extreme rapid intensification can happen more often as these ocean temperatures just stay incredibly warm.