Hurricane Beryl makes landfall near popular Mexico tourist resort Tulum: Live updates

Hurricane Beryl, currently a Category 2 storm, has made landfall at the popular Mexico tourist resort Tulum on Friday morning with 100mph (160km/h) winds and dangerous storm surge.

The region will see life-threatening winds, up to six feet of storm surge and up to ten inches of rainfall, the National Hurricane Center has forecast.

Hurricane Beryl will then bring dangerous rip currents to the Gulf Coast over the weekend before likely hitting southern Texas Monday.

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has warned that Beryl may make a direct hit on Tulum, urging tourists and residents to seek higher ground, shelter, or homes of family and friends elsewhere.

“Don’t hesitate, material possessions can be replaced,” the president wrote.

Hurricane Beryl has killed at least ten people, Reuters reports. Two of those killed — the first in St George’s, Grenada and the second in Hanover, Jamaica — died after hurricane-force winds knocked trees onto their homes.

Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica on Wednesday, knocking out power to 400,000 and destroying buildings, while Grenada was also left with “unimaginable” destruction after the storm passed through Monday, Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said, damaging or destroying 98 percent of buildings.