{"id":267280,"date":"2025-09-30T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267280\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:36:10","slug":"hurricanes-humberto-and-imelda-charge-toward-bermuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267280\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda charge toward Bermuda"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) \u2014 The outer bands of Hurricane Humberto<\/a> lashed Bermuda on Tuesday as it approached the tiny British territory, with newly formed Hurricane Imelda<\/a> following closely behind.<\/p>\n

A hurricane warning was in effect for the island in the north Atlantic as forecasters advised of dangerous seas, strong winds and heavy rain.<\/p>\n

Humberto was located about 300 miles (485 kilometers) west of Bermuda. The Category 1 storm had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph) and was moving north-northwest at 18 mph (30 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.<\/p>\n

Humberto was a Category 4 storm on Monday, but was quickly losing strength and was forecast to dissipate by Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Humberto was expected to pass well west and north of Bermuda on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, while Imelda was expected to pass near or over the island late Wednesday as a Category 2 hurricane, according to the Bermuda Weather Service.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot overstate the seriousness of this threat,\u201d Michael Weeks, Bermuda\u2019s minister of national security, said of Imelda. \u201cThis is not, I must stress, a passing squall.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Bermuda would endure sustained hurricane-force winds for up to six hours starting late Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Weeks announced at a news conference that the island\u2019s international airport would close on Wednesday, as would schools and government offices. <\/p>\n

He said residents should have all storm preparations completed by noon Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cImelda has the potential to damage and disrupt our island significantly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Imelda was located about 690 miles (1,115 kilometers) west-southwest of Bermuda. It had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph) and was moving east-northeast at 12 mph (19 kph).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe system is likely to be rather potent while it passes near Bermuda,\u201d the National Hurricane Center said.<\/p>\n

Bermuda is a wealthy British territory with strong concrete structures capable of withstanding serious storms.<\/p>\n

Rain, wind and big waves<\/p>\n

Humberto is expected to drop up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain on Bermuda and Imelda up to 4 inches (10 centimeters).<\/p>\n

Imelda is also pelting the coastal area of southeast North Carolina with rain that forecasters say could lead to flash and urban flooding.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Humberto and Imelda were generating dangerous swells affecting the northern Caribbean, Bahamas, Bermuda and much of the U.S. East Coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth storms churning through the Atlantic are producing dangerous rip currents and rough surf. Beaches from Florida to New Jersey may have hazardous conditions through the weekend.\u201d said Alex DaSilva, lead hurricane expert for AccuWeather, a private U.S. weather forecasting company.<\/p>\n

A deadly storm<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Imelda battered eastern Cuba, killing two people,<\/a> according to Prime Minister Manuel Marrero.<\/p>\n

He said on X that the two victims died in Santiago de Cuba province, but did not give any details.<\/p>\n

Earlier, state media reported that 60-year-old Luis Mario P\u00e9rez Coiterio died in Santiago de Cuba following landslides in that area.<\/p>\n

Flooding and landslides cut off 17 communities in that province, affecting more than 24,000 people who live there, according to the official newspaper Granma.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, more than 18,000 people were evacuated in the province of Guant\u00e1namo, according to reports from the state-run Caribe channel.<\/p>\n

In Haiti, one woman is missing after trying to cross a swollen river and two others were injured after heavy rains from Imelda pelted the country, flooding some 35 communities, according to the country\u2019s Civil Protection Agency. Imelda also caused significant crop destruction in a country where more than half of its nearly 12 million inhabitants were expected to experience severe hunger<\/a> through the first half of the year.<\/p>\n

Imelda also flooded parts of the Bahamas on Monday, with New Providence hit hard. More than a dozen public schools on that island and on nearby Grand Bahama and Abaco remained closed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe aftermath is serious,\u201d Prime Minister Philip Davis said. \u201cFloodwaters remain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imelda strengthened into a hurricane on Tuesday, becoming the Atlantic season\u2019s fourth hurricane this year.<\/p>\n

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had predicted an above-normal season with 13 to 18 named storms. Of those, five to nine were forecast to become hurricanes, including two to five major hurricanes, which pack winds of 111 mph or greater.<\/p>\n

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) \u2014 The outer bands of Hurricane Humberto lashed Bermuda on Tuesday as it…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":267281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[51944,77653,1613,746,57,2692,29606,1612,139296,139297,139298,930,139299,159,3883,61,67,132,68,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-267280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-alex-dasilva","9":"tag-bermuda","10":"tag-central-america","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-hurricanes","14":"tag-hurricanes-and-typhoons","15":"tag-latin-america","16":"tag-luis-mario-prez-coiterio","17":"tag-manuel-marrero","18":"tag-michael-weeks","19":"tag-oceans","20":"tag-philip-davis","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-storms","23":"tag-u-s-news","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115294934679792991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}