Bermuda issued a hurricane warning on Thursday as massive Hurricane Bill approached, spinning off life-threatening ocean swells in Puerto Rico and the island of Hispaniola and threatening to regain Category 4 status.
A “large and powerful” Category 3 hurricane, Bill was expected to pass over the open waters between the US and Bermuda early today, the US National Hurricane Center said.
On Thursday afternoon, Bill’s eye was about 825km south of Bermuda and some 1,470km southeast of the US coastline at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the hurricane center said.
The first hurricane of the Atlantic season was moving toward the northwest at around 30kph and was forecast to gradually turn north roughly parallel to the US east coast.
Projections show it passing within 545km of Boston tomorrow morning before veering to the northeast up the Canadian coast.
Bill was packing sustained winds of around 205kph, with higher gusts.
The National Hurricane Center said Bill “has the potential to regain Category Four status on Friday.”
The Saffir-Simpson scale rates a storm’s severity on a scale of one to five, with a Category 3 hurricane packing dangerous winds that can cause extensive damage to populated areas.
Category 4 is reserved for hurricanes with “extremely dangerous winds” that are expected to create “devastating damage.”
Hurricane-force winds spun off from Bill extended up to 185km from the center.
Large swells “generated by this hurricane are affecting the northern Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico and Hispaniola,” and should also “begin affecting the Bahamas, Bermuda, most of the US east coast and the Atlantic Maritimes of Canada” over the next days, the center said.
Bermuda issued its hurricane warning at 11am.
The Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 and ends on Nov. 30.
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