Hurricane Humberto Will Allow Storm Imelda to Veer Away From US

Hurricane Humberto will likely bulldoze a path for Tropical Storm Imelda to veer away from the coastal U.S. Southeast, sparing the region from a direct strike.

Category 4 Humberto’s winds rose to 145 miles (233 kilometers) per hour as of 8 a.m. local time, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory. Humberto will wear down a ridge of high pressure in the Atlantic, “causing an abrupt turn of Imelda” away from landfall on the U.S. coast between North Carolina and Florida, Eric Blake, a senior hurricane specialist with the center, wrote in a forecast.

Imelda is currently 265 miles east-southeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, and is expected to become a hurricane by Tuesday, according to the center.

“There is increasing confidence in the storm staying well offshore of the southeastern United States coast,” Blake wrote.

Humberto and Imelda will still make themselves felt across the region. Humberto’s winds will likely swipe at Bermuda as it passes the island and generate dangerous surf along the US East Coast through the week. Meanwhile, Imelda is expected to unleash heavy rain across the Carolinas, Bahamas and Cuba, where it could also cause mudslides given mountainous terrain there.

The pair of storms are the eighth and ninth of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends on November 30. Typically by this time, 10 storms have formed in the ocean.