🌊 Hurricane Beryl hits Texas, China radar tracks hypersonic missiles at Mach 20, 5 US states issue heat warnings

Hurricane Beryl has made landfall as a Category 1 storm in the state of Texas in the early hours of Monday. This comes after the National Hurricane Center had warned Texas residents to brace for its arrival.

According to the NHC, Beryl has strengthened into a hurricane again and, therefore, the agency has issued a warning to over a million residents of the US state.

Hurricane Beryl was expected to reach Category 2 level before landfall, which means its wind speed can reach up to 110 mph (177 km/h). However, the BBC says the speed of winds reached 87 mph before landfall, making it a Category 1 hurricane. For more on this development, check out today’s Must-Read.

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🌊 US alert: Category 2 Hurricane Beryl now hits Texas with 87 mph winds

According to the NHC, the center of Beryl was expected to make landfall on the middle Texas coast. Beryl was forecast to turn northeastward and move farther inland over eastern Texas and Arkansas late Monday and Tuesday.

NHC also stated that the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft and coastal Doppler radar data indicate that maximum sustained winds have increased to near 80 mph (130 km/h) with higher gusts. According to the NHC, the hurricane is expected to weaken after landfall.

The Texas administration is trying to evacuate people along the coastline and those living in low-lying areas. Moreover, it has asked those who are staying back to prepare for the impact of strong winds, flooding, and power outages that could happen due to infrastructure damage.

🚀 China: ‘Impossible’ radar simulation tracks 10 hypersonic missiles at Mach 20

Chinese scientists claim they have developed a new radar system that can track multiple hypersonic missiles traveling up to Mach 20. A form of microwave photonic radar, the new system has a range of 373 miles (600 km) and can even distinguish real targets from false alarms.

Developed by a team led by Professor Zheng Xiaoping from Tsinghua University’s Department of Electronic Engineering, the new radar demonstrated impressive accuracy in ground-based simulations. The microwave photonic radar is small and lightweight, making it suitable for loading onto air defense missiles or planes.

Under these tests, the radar estimated a missile’s distance at nearly 22,966 feet per second (7 km per second) with an error margin of just 11 inches (28 cm).

🔥 June hits historic heat record, 36 million Americans under warning

In June, Earth marked its 13th consecutive month of record-breaking heat, continuing a trend that underscores ongoing climate uncertainties, experts caution.

Data reveals that global temperatures for June maintained their highest levels on record, persisting for over a year. Additionally, June marked the 12th straight month where global temperatures exceeded pre-industrial norms by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius).

Senior climate scientists believe that these rises in temperatures indicate that we are getting close to a very important limit set by the Paris Agreement. Most countries had unanimously agreed on the warming limit to the 1.5-degree temperature mark.

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