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Several Caribbean islands began to brace themselves for Tropical Storm Dorian — but the system is not considered a threat to Bermuda. Yesterday afternoon, Dorian was 1,585 miles south-southeast of Bermuda and travelling west with maximum sustained wi...

Welcome to the Virgin Islands, welcome home,” said immigration officer Brodie, as I arrived at the Terrance Lettsome Airport, on Beef Island in the British Virgin Islands. As with Bermuda, in most “small island” communities, everyone knows each other...

The chances of a busy hurricane season have increased, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Noaa has forecast ten to 17 named storms for 2019, of which between five and nine will reach hurricane stren...

Against the backdrop of what weather forecasters say will be an average hurricane season, the Minister of National Security and Emergency Measures Organization Chair, the Hon. Wayne Caines, JP, MP, recently convened an Emergency Measures Organisation...

Bermuda’s emergency agencies are prepared for the threat of major storms as the hurricane season gets under way, Wayne Caines told the House of Assembly today. Mr Caines, said he had chaired a meeting of the Emergency Measures Organisation Executive ...

Scientists have predicted a “near-normal” hurricane season this year with the Pacific El Niño counterbalancing warmer Atlantic waters. The US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Centre said that the Atlantic wou...

Post-tropical cyclone Andrea is not a threat to Bermuda, the island’s weather agency said last night. The Bermuda Weather Service said that the storm’s closest point of approach to Bermuda was expected to be 57 miles to the south-southeast at 10am t...

More than 20 soldiers from the British Army’s elite 24 Commando Royal Engineers are helping hone the disaster relief skills of the Royal Bermuda Regiment in the run-up to hurricane season. The UK soldiers will work with the RBR to share expertise and...

Britain learnt lessons from its much criticised 2017 Caribbean hurricane response and is better prepared for the next storm season, the Minister for the Overseas Territories has promised. Lord Ahmad suffered a baptism of fire in his first year in the...

Volatile weather events that brought extreme flooding to North America, Southern Africa and Asia caused economic losses estimated at up to $8 billion in March — including up to $1 billion of insured losses in the US. In light of the sizeable impact o...

The 2018 hurricane season has come to an end, with Bermuda escaping any direct impacts for the second consecutive year. James Dodgson, the director of the Bermuda Weather Service, said the area around the island has been “relatively” quiet this year,...

Huricane Oscar is expected to deliver rough seas to the island this week. However the storm is not a threat to the island, according to the Bermuda Weather Service. As of 6pm today, Oscar lay about 722 miles east southeast of Bermuda, and its closest...