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Imelda Turns Offshore as Humberto Nears Bermuda, Setting Up Rare Two-Storm Threat

A Fujiwhara-like interaction is steering Imelda away from the U.S. coast.

In this weather satellite photo taken around 7:40 a.m. Sunday, Hurricane Humberto, at right, appears as a tight, compact spiral of clouds in the western Atlantic, north of Puerto Rico. A tropical depression, which later became Tropical Storm Imelda, had formed near the Bahamas and is visible as band of thick clouds to the left or west of Humberto.
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Overview

  • Hurricane Humberto is a large Category 3 with 115 mph winds moving north-northwest and is expected to pass west of Bermuda, bringing possible tropical-storm conditions Tuesday into Wednesday.
  • Tropical Storm Imelda, centered about 200 miles east of Florida with 65 mph winds, is forecast to become a hurricane Tuesday and head toward Bermuda, where a hurricane watch is posted.
  • Forecasters say Humberto’s circulation will tug Imelda east-northeast in a Fujiwhara effect, reducing U.S. wind and flood risk but sustaining dangerous surf, rip currents and beach erosion along the East Coast.
  • Authorities report two deaths in eastern Cuba, widespread rain, evacuations and power outages in the Bahamas, and a fatal rip-current drowning in Volusia County, Florida.
  • Localized flash flooding remains possible along the coastal Carolinas with 1 to 2 feet of water above normally dry ground at high tide, as Bermuda prepares for potential sequential impacts from both storms.