Bermuda minister warns third hurricane of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season ‘is not a storm to be taken lightly’.
Hurricane Ernesto has left tens of thousands of people without power across Bermuda as it hit the British island territory with powerful winds, a dangerous storm surge and potentially deadly flooding.
The Category 1 storm brought maximum sustained winds of 140km/h (87mph) to Bermuda – home to about 64,000 people – as it made landfall early on Saturday.
Electric utility BELCO said the storm caused nearly island-wide outages, with about 26,100 of roughly 36,000 customers without power at 9am local time (13:00 GMT).
Ernesto was expected to slowly depart Bermuda over the course of the day, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in the United States.
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