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Sep 13, 2023 · NOAA's National Weather Service wants you to have the latest, most accurate information on Lee to keep you informed and safe. Here is a compilation of information that you can use before, during, and after the storm to have the most current forecasted weather conditions for your area, evacuation and shelter information, and available resources ...
Sep 13, 2023 · Lee is forecast to still be hurricane-strength by the time it passes east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Saturday morning. Lee could bring strong, gusty winds from Rhode Island to Boston to Maine.
- Overview
- Where is Lee heading?
- Where will Lee make landfall?
- Will Hurricane Lee hit Massachusetts?
- Will Hurricane Lee hit New York?
- Hurricane Lee spaghetti models
- What are the hurricane category wind speeds?
Update: Lee made landfall in Canada.
Former Hurricane Lee was lashing New England and southeastern Canada on Saturday after it became a post-tropical cyclone. Watches and warnings are up for the coastal areas of Maine, New Hampshire and the Canadian Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Lee's effects were already being felt along the southeast U.S. coastline, and forecasters said Lee would make its presence felt with "hazardous surf and rip current conditions" at beaches along the western Atlantic all week.
Lee rapidly intensified over the Atlantic Ocean's very warm waters late last week, swelling into a powerful Category 5 hurricane before its wind speeds started to decline.
As of 2 p.m. EDT on Saturday, Lee had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Hurricane-force winds were extending up to 140 miles from the center of Lee and tropical-storm-force winds were extending up to 390 miles from the center. The center of the storm was about 80 miles south-southeast of Eastport, Maine, and about 150 miles west-southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia, according to the hurricane center. Lee was moving north at 22 mph.
"The center of Lee is forecast to make landfall in Atlantic Canada later this afternoon," the hurricane center wrote. "Lee is then expected to turn toward the northeast and move across Atlantic Canada tonight and Sunday."
A hurricane watch is in effect for parts of southeastern Canada.
A tropical storm warning was in effect from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, north to the U.S.-Canada border and parts of southeastern Canada.
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According to the hurricane center, Lee is expected to make landfall in southeastern Canada on Saturday.
CBS Boston meteorologists reported Friday with "high confidence" that the center of Lee is expected to pass about 200 miles east of southern New England Saturday morning, likely as a minimal Category 1 hurricane, transitioning to an extra-tropical, nor'easter-type storm.
Lee is expected to move up the coast of Massachusetts without making landfall in the state — but coastal areas will feel the effects of the storm.
CBS Boston reported the "greatest impact will be felt on the Lower and Outer Cape and on Nantucket."
"If you live on the Cape of Massachusetts or Maine, keep a close eye on Lee as we head into the weekend," Weather Channel meteorologist Stephane Abrams said Tuesday on "CBS Mornings."
"The exact positioning of the storm and level of impacts we'll see in the U.S. will be determined in part by high pressure off to the east and a trough off to the west," she said. "If Lee ends up farther west, we could have stronger winds, heavier rain, larger swells and coastal flooding. If it slides more east, the impacts would be less intense."
New York is not expected to take a direct hit, but CBS New York reports Long Island shore towns are preparing for potential effects from the storm. High surf, dangerous rip currents and beach erosion are likely to be the biggest threats there.
"We've had crews for the last week, and they will be out all weekend long securing these waterways, building up these areas to try and preserve our beaches," Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin told the station.
Spaghetti weather models, or spaghetti plots, are computer models showing the possible paths a storm may take as it develops. These models don't predict the impact or when a storm may hit, according to the Weather Channel, but focus on showing which areas might potentially be at risk.
Spaghetti models for Hurricane Lee mostly showed the storm traveling over the Atlantic as it heads northward, closing the gap near northern New England. A spaghetti model for Lee created Tuesday, seen below, showed most projected paths skirting along the U.S. coast at least up to New England, with a potential impact along the northern New England coast or Canadian Maritimes late this week.
Hurricanes are rated on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which includes five categories based on the storm's sustained wind speeds. Here is a look at how the categories break down and how the National Hurricane Center describes the potential level of damage such storms can cause if they make landfall:
Category 1: Sustained wind speed of 74-95 mph
"Very dangerous winds will produce some damage"
Category 2: Sustained wind speed of 96-110 mph
"Extremely dangerous winds will cause extensive damage"
Category 3: Sustained wind speed of 111-129 mph
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Sep 5, 2023 · Lee was a post-tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with sustained wind speeds of 45 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. Follow our coverage here.
Sep 18, 2023 · Lee made landfall in Nova Scotia on Saturday afternoon as a post-tropical cyclone after transitioning from a hurricane and slightly weakening earlier in the day.
Sep 17, 2023 · Satellite images, weather maps and tracks of Category 5 Major Hurricane Lee 2023, 1 - 19 September. Max wind speed 165mph.
