Hurricane Beryl lashes Texas as a Category 1 with 100mph winds and dangerous storm surge: Live updates

Hurricane Beryl has made landfall in the United States, after reaching the coast of Matagorda, Texas around 4am CDT Monday morning, and is now traversing inland across eastern Texas.

Tropical storm Beryl intensified into a Category 1 hurricane before it reached land in the early hours, causing hundreds of thousands of Texan customers to lose power within hours of Beryl arriving at the coast.

The National Hurricane Center has warned of heavy rainfall, strong winds and life-threatening storm surge to batter areas of Texas today.

The hurricane is hurtling inland with maximum sustained winds of 80mph (130km/h) and is currently around 85 miles (135km) south-southwest of Houston, Texas, the NHC said.

More than a million people in Texas were placed under a hurricane warning , with Acting Texas Governor Dan Patrick declaring 120 counties to be disaster areas ahead of the storm and warned Beryl “will be a deadly storm”.

School systems, airports and major oil shipping operations have been suspended and will remain closed for the day on Monday.

Beryl has already left a trail of destruction as a Category 5 hurricane through Mexico and the Caribbean .