SEATTLE - Earlier this year, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters at the Climate Prediction Center predicted an above-normal hurricane season for 2024 which runs from June 1 to November 30 each year. This theory only intensified with the appearance of Hurricane Beryl, which formed during the evening of June 29th and rapidly increased into a major Category 4 storm on June 30th.
Hurricane Beryl took just 42 hours to go from a tropical depression to a Category 3 storm according to meteorologist Sam Lillo. "This has been done six other times in Atlantic hurricane history," he said on his X account.
