Hurricane Beryl slammed into the Caribbean island of Carriacou on Monday, producing "life-threatening conditions" including disastrous winds, according to US trackers, after the storm strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm.

FOX 13 Meteorologist Valerie Mills takes a look at the historic Category 4 Hurricane Beryl after it made landfall on Carriacou Island in the Caribbean. It became the earliest Cat 4 on record and carries strong maximum sustained winds into the Windward Islands.

Hurricane Beryl on Monday was approaching the Windward Islands as a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph.

A dangerous and extremely powerful Hurricane Beryl is on the move in the Caribbean. The storm made its first landfall on Carriacou, an island in Grenada.

Hurricane Beryl bore down on the southeast Caribbean early Monday as a powerful Category 3 storm after previously becoming the earliest storm of Category 4 strength to form in the Atlantic, fueled by record warm waters.

Hurricane Beryl makes landfall as a powerful Category 4 storm on the Caribbean island of Carriacou.

Hurricane Beryl, now a Category 4 storm, is heading toward the Caribbean. See the projected path of the storm as it makes landfall.

The National Hurricane Center is tracking Hurricane Beryl, the remnants of Chris and a new tropical wave. Hurricane Beryl made landfall Monday on Carriacou Island as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm.