Though Beryl, the first hurricane of the season, was downgraded Sunday to a tropical storm, it still could inflict damage to Virgin Islands National Park and other units of the National Park System in the Caribbean.

Virgin Islands National Park, San Juan National Historic Site, Buck Island Reef National Monument, and Christiansted National Historic Site all sustained varying degrees of damage last fall when Hurricanes Irma and Maria swept through the Caribbean in September. Recovery efforts have been ongoing in some of those units.

On Sunday, National Hurricane Center forecasters said Beryl "will likely produce strong gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall across the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico during the next couple of days."

Through Monday and into Tuesday the storm could drop upwards of 3-5 inches of rain across those areas, the center predicted.

In Puerto Rico, Randy Lavasseur, superintendent of the Caribbean park units, said Sunday that some damage already had been reported from Virgin Islands National Park on the island of St. John.

"So far we have lost a few more trees in St. John even though the storm isn’t here yet. They have been cleaned up and the roads are open," he said in an email. "The weakened infrastructure will contribute to our issue. We are most concerned about falling trees, power lines and roads being washed out or undercut."

At the St. John Community Foundation, Celia Kalousek posted on the group's Facebook page that while it was good news that Beryl had weakened, "the bad news is that many residents still have unstable housing, leaky roofs, and need more assistance. Say prayers and prepare because Mother Nature is unpredictable."