SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Hurricane Imelda was nearly on top of Bermuda late Wednesday as a Category 2 storm that forecasters warned was expected to bring potentially destructive weather to the British territory.
“Imelda’s core now moving over Bermuda where hurricane-force winds, damaging waves, and flash flooding expected into the morning,” the National Weather Service in Miami said in an 11 p.m. update.
Imelda was about 20 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 kph) while moving east-northeast at 29 mph (46 kph), the center said.
A hurricane warning remained in effect for Bermuda, a wealthy overseas territory with strong structures that have withstood powerful storms in previous years….