"Humberto is likely to remain offshore and track west of Bermuda on Monday night into Tuesday, but its strength will still send large swells, life-threatening rip currents and surf across the Lesser Antilles and the US east coast over the coming days."
"Attention has shifted away from Humberto to a developing system farther west: Tropical Storm Imelda, which was named on Sunday. Imelda is forecast to become a hurricane late Monday on night into Tuesday morning after tracking through the Bahamas and brushing Florida's east coast. Models are showing a sharp change in the current northward track of the system, with Imelda likely to become a category 1 hurricane veering towards Bermuda on Thursday night."
"Even before strengthening, Imelda produced dangerous rainfall across the Caribbean, with flooding in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico causing two deaths on Friday. By Sunday afternoon local time, some private weather stations had already recorded close to 90mm (3.5in) of rain in just 12 hours. More than 400,000 people in the Dominican Republic faced water supply problems, and mandatory evacuation orders have been made for parts of Grand Bahama, with the international airports shut down on Sunday."
Hurricane Humberto remained a powerful storm in the Sargasso Sea, briefly reaching category 5 with 160 mph sustained winds before weakening to category 4. Humberto is expected to remain offshore and track west of Bermuda, while generating large swells, life-threatening rip currents and surf across the Lesser Antilles and the US east coast, and bringing sustained winds above 70 mph to Bermuda. Tropical Storm Imelda formed farther west and is forecast to become a hurricane after tracking through the Bahamas and brushing Florida's east coast, likely turning toward Bermuda as a category 1 by Thursday. Imelda already caused deadly flooding, major rainfall, water-supply disruptions, evacuations in Grand Bahama, airport closures, and threatens further flash flooding across Cuba, the Bahamas and parts of the US Southeast.
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