00:00Local media reported at least five vacant homes collapsed in Buxton this afternoon amid impacts from Hurricanes Umberto and Imelda.
00:07No injuries were reported, but both storms continue to generate really massive waves and dangerous rip currents.
00:13The Cape Hatteras National Seashore says these are the latest homes claimed by the ocean this month.
00:19Another collapsed just two weeks ago.
00:21We want to take you to Cape Fear, North Carolina now.
00:24This is courtesy of Explore.org and Frying Pan Tower, and still breezy offshore there.
00:30Yeah, it is still, that's a stiff wind for sure right now, and we're in the low 70s.
00:35Temperatures are going to be keeping us, again, a little bit more in the way of, again, temperate here for the coast.
00:42So it's not going to get too hot here with that chilly breeze from the northeast, but the ocean water keeps that moderated.
00:47Overall, when we look at the satellite estimates of where the rain is falling,
00:51almost as if there was a radar network all the way out over the ocean, it's kind of a searching game here to find Bermuda.
00:56There's Bermuda, and we had a heavy band of rain.
00:59When we started with our live coverage around 4 o'clock today, this band of heavy rain was really bringing some lower visibilities to Bermuda,
01:07and we're getting back into it now.
01:09Another band of rain associated with the circulation of Umberto pivoting through,
01:14but the bigger impacts will come tomorrow night, unfortunately, as Imelda is making a hard right turn,
01:20and it's going to be making a push right into the area of Bermuda.
01:23So on the hurricane timing calendar, we've had nine named storms.
01:27Typically, our ninth would form September 16th, so Imelda formed about 10 days later than average for the ninth named storm.
01:35Our fourth hurricane was about two weeks later than average.
01:38Today's the 30th, and Imelda became a hurricane two weeks behind schedule for the average date for the fourth hurricane.
01:44We're ahead of schedule, on the other hand, for the number of major hurricanes just early in the season.
01:48Typically, a number three doesn't occur until the end of October, and that is the number that we usually land at for a typical year, three to four majors.
01:57Here we have Imelda.
01:58Imelda is still churning.
02:00It's offshore.
02:01It's begun the sweeping right turn, and it's going to continue to move into Bermuda.
02:05There's Bermuda.
02:06And again, we have max sustained winds of 85 miles per hour.
02:09So for the first time today, Imelda is stronger than Umberto.
02:13Imelda will continue to move east-northeast.
02:15We have a Category 2 impacts coming to Bermuda.
02:18Now, Bermuda has an AccuWeather real impact scale rating for hurricanes of one for this storm.
02:24Most other areas would have a two probably with gusts of 80 to 100 miles per hour, but Bermuda knows how to deal with hurricanes.
02:30They build out of stone.
02:31They'll have some scattered power outages.
02:33Again, they're well prepared for this.
02:35And the rain is not going to be that big of a deal, an inch or two, because it'll be a fast-moving storm and out to sea.
02:40And by the way, Umberto is still max sustained winds of 80 miles per hour.
02:45This one is going to bring wind and gusts of 80 to 100 miles per hour to northwestern parts of the British Isles late this week into the weekend.
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