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Imelda Strengthens to Category 2 as Bermuda Braces for Direct Pass

Bermuda closes schools, airport, offices ahead of expected hurricane conditions tonight.

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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

  • At 11 a.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center set Imelda’s winds at 100 mph with the center about 340 miles west-southwest of Bermuda and forecast to pass near the islands this evening before pulling away Thursday.
  • A hurricane warning covers Bermuda, where forecasters expect hurricane-force winds, 2 to 4 inches of rain, dangerous storm surge and large, damaging waves.
  • Authorities shut the Causeway, suspended public transport, and opened an emergency storm center as BELCO reported outages from earlier Humberto squalls and urged emergency-only calls.
  • Humberto, now weakening and merging with a frontal boundary, continues to help generate hazardous swells; experts note a Fujiwhara-like interaction that steered Imelda away from the U.S. coast.
  • Life-threatening surf, rip currents and coastal flooding are affecting beaches from Florida to New England, with multiple Outer Banks homes collapsing, while earlier in the week Imelda’s flooding killed two people in eastern Cuba and inundated parts of the Bahamas.