View from the International Space Station (ISS) of Hurricane Beryl over the Caribbean Sea on 1st July 2024. At this point Beryl was a category 4 storm with sustained winds of around 215 kilometres per hour (km/h). After strengthening slightly Beryl made landfall on the island of Carriacou, Grenada, on the afternoon of the 1st with sustained winds of 240km/h. The storm caused extensive damage and five deaths. On the 2nd July Beryl peaked as a category 5 hurricane, the earliest in the Atlantic hurricane season that a hurricane has reached category 5 since records began.