Texas coast braces for Beryl with storm expected to regain hurricane strength

Texas officials urged coastal residents to prepare (NOAA via AP)

Texas officials are urging coastal residents to brace for a potential hit by Beryl with the storm expected to regain hurricane strength in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Jack Beven, a senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Centre in Miami, said: “We’re expecting the storm to make landfall somewhere on the Texas coast sometime Monday, if the current forecast is correct.