View from the International Space Station (ISS) of the eye of Hurricane Beryl off the coast of Grenada in 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. 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. As of 25th July 2024, 64 confirmed deaths have been attributed to Beryl, as well as estimated damages of over 6 billion US dollars.