Weather tracker: Hurricane Beryl causes devastation across Caribbean

A man stands next to a business destroyed by Hurricane Beryl in Clifton, Union Island, St Vincent and the Grenadines. Photograph: Lucanus Ollivierre/AP

Hurricane Beryl has caused devastation across a number of Caribbean islands over the past few days, becoming the earliest category 5 Atlantic hurricane in about 100 years of record keeping.

With maximum sustained winds of 165mph, it was upgraded to a category 5 hurricane on 2 July, which also made it the strongest Atlantic hurricane in that month, beating 2005’s Hurricane Emily, which recorded maximum sustained winds of 160mph.