Predictions on how Humberto could affect Florida and the U.S. are difficult due to the Fujiwhara effect. Humberto strengthened rapidly on Sept. 26 and is now a major Category 3 hurricane, according to the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center.

As Tropical Storm Imelda strengthens, a stronger Hurricane Humberto could help the U.S. avoid potential landfall.

Hurricane Humberto showed rapid intensification and became a Category 5 storm at the 5 p.m. Saturday advisory from the National Hurricane Center. Humberto is now a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

Hurricane Humberto has merged with a front and is starting to fizzle out. The system, however, is generating dangerous surf and rip currents that will persist along the western Atlantic coastline throughout the week.

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While days earlier, spaghetti models indicated the possibility of then-Tropical Storm Imelda inching closer to the United States' eastern coast, the track shifted and confidence rapidly showed Imelda would be pulled east towards Bermuda and the Atlantic Ocean.

Imelda became the fourth hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season early Tuesday morning, but a rare Fujiwhara interaction with Humberto will prevent the storm from making landfall in the United States.

Swells generated Hurricane Imelda and Humberto are affecting the Bahamas and are currently spreading to much of the U.S. East Coast. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. The system will then move into open waters of the Atlantic, where it will become a post-tropical system by the end of the week.

Hurricane Humberto is now a Category 5 storm, and Tropical Depression Nine is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by Tuesday, according to forecasts.

Humberto has maximum sustained winds of nearly 100 mph and a minimum central pressure of 972 mb. It has been downgraded to a Category 3 storm. The hurricane is forecast to travel north-northwest before gradually turning to travel more northward, then east-northeast late Tuesday or Wednesday.

Hurricanes Imelda and Humberto are spinning in the western Atlantic and churning up dangerous surf, rip currents, coastal flooding and beach erosion along the United States’ East Coast. Bermuda – now under a hurricane warning – faces a rare one-two punch from the storms,