The T20 World Cup-winning Indian cricket team’s departure from the Caribbean island was delayed due to Hurricane Beryl.
Hurricane Beryl became the earliest storm on record during the Atlantic hurricane season to have reached the highest Category 5 classification.
Hurricane Bery, which tore through the Caribbean islands earlier in July 2024, killed at least 11 people after triggering intense floods and dangerous winds in Jamaica, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and northern Venezuela.
Later, it made landfall in Texas, United States, as a Category 1 storm, flooding streets and knocking out power for more than two million people in the state.
Hurricanes, or tropical storms, form over warm ocean waters near the equator. When the warm, moist air from the ocean surface rises upward, a lower air pressure area is formed below.
Air from surrounding areas with higher air pressure rushes into this low pressure area, eventually rising, after it also becomes warm and moist.
