Overview

• Imelda strengthened into the season’s fourth hurricane and is forecast to pass near or over Bermuda Wednesday night with hurricane-force winds; a Hurricane Warning is in effect and the airport is closed until at least Thursday.
• After peaking as a Category 5, Humberto has weakened and is moving northeast, and its larger circulation tugged Imelda east in a rare Fujiwhara-type interaction that reduced the U.S. landfall risk.
• Forecast guidance flags a potential sting-jet over Bermuda as Imelda approaches a weakening, likely extratropical Humberto, with localized wind gusts of 80–100 mph possible.
• Dangerous surf, rip currents and pockets of minor to moderate coastal flooding continue along the East Coast, with small craft advisories posted and a Florida rip-current fatality reported.
• Cuba confirmed two deaths and major flooding in Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo, where up to 20 inches of rain fell and thousands were evacuated.