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Imelda Nears Bermuda at Category 2 Strength as Island Locks Down

Officials say a rare Fujiwhara-type pairing with Humberto helped steer the storm offshore of the U.S. coast.

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This map shows the National Hurricane Center’s projected path for Hurricane Imelda. 
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Hurricane Humberto, once a major hurricane, is a Category 1 in the northwest Atlantic. Humberto’s remnants are expected to be absorbed by Hurricane Imelda as it approaches Bermuda.

Overview

  • The National Hurricane Center reported Imelda about 190 miles west-southwest of Bermuda with 100 mph winds, moving east-northeast at 22 mph, with the closest pass expected late Wednesday and the strongest winds possible early Thursday.
  • Bermuda closed its airport, schools and government offices, shut the Causeway and public transport, opened an emergency storm center and deployed 100 soldiers, with forecasts calling for 2 to 4 inches of rain, storm surge and large damaging waves.
  • Humberto has merged with a frontal boundary and lost tropical status, and its remnants were named Storm Amy by U.K. forecasters for an expected impact on Ireland and the U.K. later this week.
  • Large swells from Imelda and Humberto are producing high surf, life‑threatening rip currents and pockets of coastal flooding from the Bahamas to the U.S. East Coast, where several Outer Banks homes collapsed and a Florida drowning was reported.
  • Earlier in the week, Imelda caused deadly flooding in eastern Cuba that killed two people and prompted mass evacuations, with parts of the Bahamas also reporting flooding and school closures.