Beryl is set to gain hurricane strength as it bears down on the Texas coast
NPRBeryl is set to gain hurricane strength as it bears down on the Texas coast toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images Beryl is set to make landfall early Monday morning along the Texas coast as the storm regains hurricane-level strength in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Weather Service. "We are expecting Beryl to be intensifying up until landfall early Monday, and people should be preparing for the possibility of a category 2 hurricane landfall," Eric Blake, a senior hurricane specialist with the National Hurricane Center, said in an advisory Sunday. Sponsor Message Beryl — the earliest Atlantic storm in a calendar year to become a Category 5 hurricane — left at least 11 people dead as it tore through the Caribbean last week. “When we’re warming the planet with our fossil-fuel emissions, we’re making it more likely that we have those warm ocean waters that can allow a storm like Beryl to really develop and intensify quickly.” Residents along Texas' Gulf Coast remember Hurricane Harvey, which hit the area hard in 2017 as a Category 4 hurricane.