VoIP Hurricane Net Activation for Hurricane Imelda on Bermuda Secured at 200 AM EDT Thursday 10/2/25

Hello to all…

The VoIP Hurricane Net secured the activation for Hurricane Imelda on Bermuda at 2 AM EDT, Thursday 10/2/25. Special thanks to AE4WX-Mark and KC5FM-Lloyd for their Net Control support. Also, special thanks to K2DCD-Dennis and KC5FM-Lloyd for various posts on the Bermuda Radio Society Facebook pages and other areas to notify people in the affected area of our net activation.

We monitored numerous weather stations and social media during Imelda. The National Museum of Bermuda did get sustained 76 knots gust 86 knots on the southwest part of the island. Gilbert Hill Smiths Bermuda had a 76 mph gust and a weather station on south road – Sam Hall’s bay had sustained 57 mph/gust 78 mph – a report our net sent in that was used in advisory. There also seemed to be a period of much lighter winds around 11 PM EDT before stronger winds resumed around 12 AM EDT. The eye was close but not over Bermuda at that point. As of this morning, BELCO reports over 17,000 customers without power in Bermuda which is a significant number but not as bad as some prior hurricane impacts on Bermuda.

A complete list of reports sent in from our net can be seen on the VoIP Hurricane Net Report Viewer at the following link:
https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK

A couple of new areas of disturbed weather have a low chance of development over the next 7 days, one in the Bahamas moving toward the Gulf of America and the other just off the coast of Africa. We will monitor these systems over the course of this week. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net