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Imelda weakened early Thursday after lashing  as a Category 2 hurricane, pounding the archipelago with heavy rain and powerful winds. The worst of the conditions has passed for Bermuda as Imelda, now a post-tropical storm, continues on its path out into the Atlantic, according to forecasters. 

Imelda, the ninth named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, transitioned on Thursday into "a strong extratropical cyclone," or post-tropical storm, over the central Atlantic Ocean, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center, which said its 11 a.m. advisory would be the last for Imelda.

"Gradual weakening is forecast over the next few days, but the post-tropical cyclone will remain a large and powerful system as it moves across the central Atlantic," the advisory said.

The NHC said earlier that hurricane-force winds were recorded on Bermuda, but there were no immediate reports of damage from the gusts or heavy rainfall that had been expected to bring possible flash flooding and damaging waves. 

A hurricane warning in Bermuda was dropped early Thursday, but a tropical storm warning remained in effect for the islands, which sit about 600 miles east of the U.S. East Coast.

Swells generated by Imelda and , farther out in the Atlantic, were also spreading to much of the U.S. East Coast. "These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions," forecasters said.

Imelda came on the heels of , which rapidly intensified to a major hurricane over the Atlantic on Saturday but was not expected to reach land. Humberto reached as high as a Category 5 on Saturday before beginning to weaken. On Wednesday, the sustained winds for Humberto's remnants fell to 70 mph, below the 74 mph threshold for a Category 1 hurricane.

Forecasters said last week there was a small possibility the two systems could interact, creating what is , a rare phenomenon in which two different storms merge and become entangled around a newly formed, common center. Autos News meteorologist Nikki Nolan said that wasn't considered a likely outcome in this case, although one storm did affect the other because of their close proximity at one point over the Atlantic.