Bermuda Officially Under Hurricane Watch
[Updated] As of 6am today [Sept 17] the Bermuda Weather Service has placed the island under hurricane watch, saying at its closest point of approach Hurricane Igor will be 12 miles away from the island at 2am on Monday and it is expected to be a “strong category 2 or minimal category 3″ when it arrives. Numerous forecasters have predicted we will take a direct hit from the powerful hurricane, whose eye alone is twice the size of Bermuda.
The National Hurricane Center update this morning says that Igor is 760 miles south-southeast of Bermuda, and is carrying maximum sustained winds of 125mph.
We will continue to update as Igor approaches, and for our previous posts please see here.
We encourage all locals to prepare for Igor, with the reminder that this is expected to be on the same, or some say worse, scale of the devastating Hurricane Fabian of 2003. For those who do not recall Fabian, it ripped through the island causing hundreds of millions dollars worth of damage, leaving many without power for weeks, and tragically took 4 lives.
Update 5pm: The Bermuda Weather Service just upgraded the watch to a ‘Hurricane Warning’
Below is the full 36-page Emergency Plan from the EMO, click Full Screen for greater clarity:
