 Once it makes landfall over Texas, the system will probably turn northward, past eastern Texas and across the northern Gulf Coast facing the Mississippi Valley. It'll be weakening as time goes along, and then sometime in the middle of next week, it will emerge as a funnel system over the Mississippi Valley, and that will be the end of Beryl. He adds it's unusual to get a hurricane reaching Category 4 this early in the season. Beryl broke several records for being the earliest hurricane of its intensity.