Imelda weakens after lashing Bermuda as a Category 2 hurricane. Maps show its forecast path.

Hurricane Imelda weakened early Thursday after lashing Bermuda as a Category 2 storm, pounding the archipelago with heavy rain and powerful winds. The worst of the conditions had passed for Bermuda as Imelda weakened to a Category 1 hurricane and continued on its path out into the Atlantic, where it was expected to further weaken, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center.

Imelda is the ninth named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed on Sunday in the western Atlantic and strengthened into a hurricane early Tuesday.

Hurricane Imelda forecast maps

As of 5 a.m. ET on Thursday, Imelda’s center was located about 170 miles east-northeast of Bermuda, with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, according to the hurricane center. Imelda was moving east-northeast at 30 mph.

Imelda’s core was forecast to move further away from Bermuda over the course of Thursday morning, the hurricane center said. 

The storm is expected to weaken further to an extratropical low-pressure cyclone sometime later on Thursday.  

The NHC said hurricane-force winds were recorded on Bermuda, but there were no immediate reports of damage from the gusts or heavy rainfall that had been expected to bring possible flash flooding and damaging waves. 

A hurricane warning in Bermuda was dropped early Thursday, but a tropical storm warning remained in effect for the islands, which sit about 600 miles east of the U.S. East Coast.

Swells generated by Imelda and Hurricane Humberto, farther out in the Atlantic, were also spreading to much of the U.S. East Coast. “These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions,” forecasters said.

Imelda follows Hurricane Humberto

Imelda comes on the heels of Humberto, which rapidly intensified to a major hurricane over the Atlantic on Saturday but is not expected to reach land. Humberto reached as high as a Category 5 on Saturday before beginning to weaken. On Wednesday morning, the sustained winds for Humberto’s remnants fell to 70 mph, below the 74 mph threshold for a Category 1 hurricane.

Forecasters said last week there was a small possibility the two systems could interact, creating what is known as a Fujiwhara effect, a rare phenomenon in which two different storms merge and become entangled around a newly formed, common center. CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan said that wasn’t considered a likely outcome in this case, although it wasn’t impossible, and the two storms already affected each other because of their close proximity at one point over the Atlantic.

Emily Mae Czachor and

The Associated Press

contributed to this report.