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Leslie was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane this morning. The meandering storm is not predicted to threaten the island, although rough seas mean a small craft warning remains in effect. Strong winds today are forecast to gradually ease by tomorrow ...

Island residents from countries battered by major storms said yesterday they continued to monitor reports from their homelands on the damage. Typhoon Mangkhut has claimed more than 60 lives in the northern Philippines and Hurricane Florence was blame...

As the peak of the 2018 hurricane season progresses, Britain is on standby as its Caribbean territories remain vulnerable after the devastation of hurricanes Irma and Maria a year earlier. In the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla and the Turks & Caic...

Filipinos in Bermuda were yesterday locked in a desperate bid to contact their families in the typhoon-battered country. Bermudian Evelou Mosley, originally from the Philippines, said yesterday she and her husband Daryn were booked to fly to the Phil...

A Bermudian on vacation in the Philippines said last night the country was braced for the impact of a major typhoon. Terrilyn Griffiths said she was nervous about Typhoon Mangkhut, a Category 4 storm, but Filipinos in the area she is staying did not ...

As I write this, much remains uncertain about Hurricane Florence’s landfall in the Carolinas — the exact place the storm will strike, the strength of the winds, how much flooding will occur both along the coast and inland. But one thing is certain: W...

Hurricane Florence will be an earnings rather than a capital event for the reinsurance industry, according to ratings agency S&P Global Ratings. Meteorologists today forecast that the Category 2 storm would make landfall in North and South Carolina t...

Cruise passengers who expected a sunshine cruise to Bermuda were disappointed to find themselves sailing to Halifax, Nova Scotia, instead because of fears over Hurricane Florence. The diversion was a big blow to one passenger on the Norwegian Dawn be...

Hurricane Florence is expected to pass to the south of the island tonight as it heads for the US East Coast. The Bermuda Weather Service said the Category 4 hurricane is expected to pass 353 miles to the island’s south-southwest at 9pm. A spokesman s...

All government services will remain in operation today as Hurricane Florence passes to the south of the island. This morning the storm grew to Category 4 strength, and was predicted to intensify — but Florence was sticking to a course that would send...

Florence has regained hurricane strength this morning, but Bermuda should be spared severe winds. Florence is labelled a potential threat to the island because its centre is expected to pass within 460 miles in the next 72 hours. The Bermuda Weather ...

As of 6pm, Tropical Storm Florence lay 900 miles east-southeast of the island, and was headed west-southwest at 8mph. The Emergency Measures Organisation has announced that it is prepared to meet on Monday as Tropical Storm Florence gets nearer. But ...