Overview
- Authorities in Bermuda closed the airport, public schools and government offices and deployed 100 soldiers as Imelda’s core passed near the island with 155 km/h winds, heavy rain and storm surge flooding risk.
- Humberto weakened and dispersed on Wednesday, with UK forecasters naming its remnants Amy, yet swells from both systems continue to produce dangerous surf and rip currents across the northern Caribbean, the Bahamas, Bermuda and much of the U.S. East Coast.
- The National Hurricane Center warns of life‑threatening rip currents and minor coastal inundation from Florida to the Outer Banks during high tides.
- Imelda’s impacts have been deadly, with two fatalities reported in eastern Cuba after flooding and landslides and a 51‑year‑old man drowned by rip currents in Volusia County, Florida.
- Severe erosion and high surf collapsed at least five vacant houses into the ocean on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, according to the U.S. National Park Service.