Ernesto made landfall in Bermuda as a hurricane on Saturday, bringing “hazardous weather” to the Atlantic island before weakening to a tropical storm along its exit path.

The hurricane made landfall on the island at around 4:30 a.m. Atlantic Standard Time as a Category 1 storm, the National Hurricane Center said. By 11 p.m. the storm was headed away from the island toward the north-northeast at a casual pace of 8 mph, the center said.

It was about 140 miles northeast of the island nation…