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A look at the destruction caused by Hurricane Beryl as it lashes its way across the region.

The storm was lashing the southern coast of Jamaica on Wednesday evening after devastating several Caribbean islands this week. The Cayman Islands are bracing to be next.

The powerful storm, which devastated communities in the eastern Caribbean earlier this week, was headed next to the Cayman Islands.

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As the storm headed for Jamaica, officials were assessing what Grenada’s prime minister called “total” devastation on two of the country’s islands.

The storm, now a Category 4 hurricane, left extreme damage in its wake as it headed toward Jamaica.

The tropical cyclone made landfall on Carriacou Island on Monday morning. Officials said the island was “flattened.”

Officials said the storm caused extreme damage to islands in Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. No storm has become a Category 5 this early in the season.

The tropical cyclone made landfall on Carriacou Island on Monday morning and was expected to bring dangerous conditions across more of the Caribbean this week.

Beryl became the earliest in a season a storm has strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic.