(Bloomberg) — The last major hurricane to strike land anywhere in the Atlantic basin was Sandy in 2012. That may change tomorrow as Hurricane Gonzalo bears down on Bermuda.
Gonzalo is a Category 4 storm, the first in the Atlantic since 2011. Sandy was a Category 3 when it hit southeastern Cuba, said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. It weakened to a Category 1 storm by the time it was off the New Jersey coast and went ashore as a hybrid weather system.
Gonzalo, with hurricane-force winds reaching as far as 45 miles (72 kilometers) from its core, is forecast to pass well away from the U.S. East Coast on a track toward Newfoundland. The system will probably pass within 25 nautical miles (46 kilometers) of Bermuda or directly over it, that nation's weather service said.
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