 Landry also says Grimes, who has more than 30 years of experience, is the perfect person for the job. I'm Mel Bridges. And the first major hurricane of the season, Beryl, continues to move west and northwest and is forecast to cross the Yucatan Peninsula Friday morning, then enter the Gulf of Mexico. Beryl is the first of the predicted four to seven major hurricanes of the season, the highest number of major storms NOAA has ever predicted. LRN.