Hurricane Beryl rapidly intensified to a record-breaking Category 5 storm, causing devastation in the Windward Islands and becoming the earliest such storm in the Atlantic basin.

Hurricane Sandy is blowing through Cuba on its way toward the U.S. Florida is preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. The National Hurricane Center issued tropical storm warnings for eastern Florida on Thursday.

The National Hurricane Center reports that Hurricane Isaac continues to slam at Louisiana, particularly in the south at New Orleans. As a result of a breached rural levee, storm surges that were expected to reach 12 feet are now predicted to rise to 16 feet high. Hurricane Isaac is crawling northwest at 6 mph. It's slow speed and heavy rains make Isaac a "powerful force," Clarion Ledger reports. The National Hurricane Center advises that residents of the Gulf Coast remain alert.

The National Hurricane Center reports that Tropical Storm Isaac can be expected as a category 2 Hurricane by late Tuesday into Wednesday with winds as fast at 110 mph. However Expert senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski, who is with the AccuWeather Hurricane and Tropical Storm Center, said Hurricane Isaac can even form into a category 3.