Important Takeaways:
- Hurricane Lee live updates: Millions in New England under storm warnings as landfall looms
- Millions of residents across eastern New England and parts of Canada were under tropical storm warnings on Friday as Hurricane Lee moved faster toward the region as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.
- “The worst conditions on Cape Cod will occur late Friday night and Saturday as Lee tracks more than 100 miles to the east Saturday morning,” AccuWeather hurricane expert Dan Kottlowski said.
- Then, on Saturday, “hurricane conditions and coastal flooding are possible in portions of eastern Maine, southern New Brunswick, and western Nova Scotia,” the National Hurricane Center said.
- Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Thursday declared a state of emergency as the state was under its first hurricane watch in 15 years Thursday afternoon. Earlier in the week, the region saw 10 inches of rain over six hours.
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Important Takeaways:
- Hurricane Lee is expected to be a large and damaging storm when it reaches far eastern New England and Canada this weekend.
- Hurricane Lee is an unusually large storm and growing further, with hurricane-force winds extending out to 105 miles from the center, and tropical storm-force winds reaching a radius of 290 miles
- Eastern Maine is likely to see the strongest winds, largest waves and heaviest rains.
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Important Takeaways:
- Hurricane Lee Grows So Terrifyingly Huge, It Doesn’t Matter If It Makes Landfall. We’re In Trouble
- Hurricane Lee increased to an absolutely enormous storm overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, and is currently estimated to be roughly 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) across.
- Even if Hurricane Lee doesn’t make landfall, its current trajectory is going to cause coastal flooding and extremely strong winds off the shores of the Northeast and into Atlantic Canada throughout the week, multiple forecasters said Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. While AccuWeather hopes Lee will be downgraded to a Cat. 2 storm by Friday, down to a Cat. 1 or Tropical Storm by Saturday and Sunday, there are multiple landfall scenarios being monitored at this time.
- New England is already suffering from extensive flooding, which left vehicles stranded and homes damaged, as seen in footage shared online. Things would probably only get worse should Lee’s trajectory shift and sit over the region.
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Important Takeaways:
- Hurricane Lee strengthens back into a Category 3 storm as it remains threat to US East Coast with dangerous rip currents
- Hurricane Lee has re-strengthened as it churns west-northwest in the Atlantic and is expected to bring dangerous surf and rip currents to the East Coast
- The storm, about 285 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands, should pass north of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other Caribbean islands
- Last week, Lee strengthened from a Category 1 storm to a Category 5 storm in just one day. It lost strength, becoming a Category 2 storm in recent days, but now has grown stronger to a Category 3 and increased in size.
- The National Hurricane Center said dangerous surf and rip currents were expected to hit most of the U.S. East Coast, but the hurricane’s impact beyond that was still unclear.
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