Humberto, Hurricane Imelda
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The National Hurricane Center's 11 a.m. Wednesday advisory reported that Category 1 Hurricane Humberto is in the Atlantic Ocean, 280 miles north-northwest of Bermuda. With maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, the hurricane is moving to the northeast at 14 mph.
Hurricane Humberto, a Category 2 storm, is not expected to make landfall in the U.S., but the East Coast could still see some impacts.
Hurricane Humberto has merged with a front and is starting to fizzle out. The system, however, is generating dangerous surf and rip currents that will persist along the western Atlantic coastline throughout the week.
Jersey Shore communities are preparing for the impacts of two tropical systems swirling in the Atlantic, Humberto and Imelda.
As the National Hurricane Center tracks Hurricane Humberto, it's watching a tropical wave likely to become Tropical Storm Imelda.
To put how bizarre a storm preventing a landfall is into perspective, the now post-tropical Humberto and Imelda were closer than any two hurricanes in at least 50 years as they swept out to sea.
Hurricane Humberto's swells will probably cause "life-threatening surf and rip current conditions," the National Hurricane Center warned.
Hurricane Humberto, a Category 1 storm, is not expected to make landfall in the U.S., but the East Coast could still see some impacts.