Hurricane Imelda is descending on Bermuda as a Category 2 storm that forecasters have warned is expected to bring potentially destructive weather to the British territory.

Tropical Storm Imelda is strengthening and is expected to become a hurricane by Tuesday as it moves off the Southeast coast, kicking up dangerous surf, rip currents, coastal flooding and beach erosion from Florida through the Carolinas.

According to the National Hurricane Center's 5 p.m. Monday advisory, Category 4 Hurricane Humberto is in the Atlantic Ocean, 295 miles southwest of Bermuda. Packing maximum sustained winds of 140 mph, the hurricane is tracking to the north-northwest at 13 mph.