Texas directly in path of year’s first major hurricane: 5 things to know

The outer bands of Hurricane Beryl — the earliest major hurricane on record — are on track to hit Texas Sunday morning.“This is a determined storm that is still strong,” Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R)saidFriday afternoon.“Now would be the time to prepare,” the National Weather Service’s (NWS)Corpus Christi branchwroteon the social platformX Friday morning.The hurricane, which has already killed nearly a dozen people in Mexico and the Caribbean and left more than half of Jamaicans without electricity, represents a harbinger of an active storm season to come — and of the emergence of a more dangerous world.For Texas, it also reflects the rising long-term threat tothe state’scoast,where warming seas and increasingly powerful hurricanes meet a historic buildout in the petrochemical industry.But even with Beryl hundreds of miles offshore, a more immediate danger is already here, according to the NWS.Here’s what you should knowabout the first big storm of the season.When will Hurricane Beryl...