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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