After a deadly end to the month of June with rip current deaths, there will be a few days of calmer conditions before dangerous rip current risks arrive for the 4th of July holiday weekend.

After tearing through parts of the southeast Caribbean, Beryl was tracking towards Jamaica on Tuesday with maximum sustained winds around 160 miles per hour.

Forecasters warn that Hurricane Beryl could be a sign of a very hyperactive hurricane season that is already one for the history books.

Hurricane Beryl upgraded to a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 storm late Monday night, the National Hurricane Center said, as it crossed islands in the southeastern Caribbean.

Beryl poses no current threats to the Southeast. Interests in the western Caribbean are urged to monitor the forecast.

The latest in the GOES-R satellite series launched Tuesday afternoon that will carry the latest weather technology and advancements into the year 2030.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is poised to send a GOES weather satellite to geostationary orbit for NOAA. After launch, the spacecraft will take nearly three-weeks to reach its destination in geostationary orbit 22,000 miles above the equator.

Officials say six people drowned in rip currents over a recent two-day period in Florida, including a couple vacationing on Hutchinson Island from Pennsylvania with their six children and three young men on a Panhandle holiday from Alabama.

A new weather eye launches into space on Tuesday, June 25 with the latest technology that will help meteorologists and other scientists bring the best forecasts in Earth and Space!

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