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After slamming into the eastern coast of Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane, Beryl was pushing across the Yucatán Peninsula toward the Gulf of Mexico as a weaker tropical storm, forecasters said on Friday. Beryl is expected to regain strength over the gulf and to reach hurricane strength again at the weekend, with sustained wind speeds of at least 119 kilometres per hour, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The hurricane is then expected to make its second landfall in Mexico, where it is on track to strike the country’s north-east, and hit the US state of Texas, too. Strong winds, heavy…

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