Tropical Storm Beryl could strengthen into hurricane by Saturday: NHC

Reuters

(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Beryl is strengthening over the tropical Atlantic and could become a hurricane by Friday or Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Thursday. Beryl is about 1,295 miles (2,080 km) east-southeast of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea and contains maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour (85 km/h), the NHC said in its latest advisory. "The center of Beryl will remain east of the Lesser Antilles through Sunday," the Miami-based weather forecaster added. (Reporting by Eileen Soreng and Vijaykumar Vedala in Bengaluru; Editing by James Dalgleish)