After rapidly strengthening from a tropical storm to a hurricane during the weekend, Hurricane Beryl has intensified even more Monday morning, becoming a very powerful storm packing sustained winds as strong as 140 mph, according to forecasters from the National Hurricane Center. The center described Beryl as “an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane,” saying it is taking aim at the Windward Islands in the Caribbean Sea, threatening the islands with “life-threatening winds and storm surge” on Monday. Hurricane Beryl is pushing its way toward the west-northwest at a pace of about 20 mph, the…