Hurricane Beryl pummeled Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula with tree-toppling gusts and flooding rains, weakening slightly as it came ashore after leaving a trail of destruction through the Caribbean this week.
Beryl’s top winds dropped to 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour after it made landfall just northeast of Tulum with 110 mph winds, the US National Hurricane center said in an 8 a.m. New York time advisory. The storm remains at Category 2 on the five-step Saffir-Sim