Residents of the tiny British archipelago of Bermuda battened down the hatches as Hurricane Humberto, a major category 3 storm packing fierce winds and punishing rain, brushed near the islands Wednesday evening.
The Miami-based US National Hurricane Center (NHC) put the center of the storm about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Bermuda at 9 pm local time (0000 GMT), with maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometers per hour.
The core of the large storm was expected to pass to the north of Bermuda late Wednesday or overnight, dumping as much as six inches (15 centimeters) of rain. A heightened storm surge is possible. Read more