Late Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch for portions of Maine with Hurricane Lee approaching.
A man views damage to a building caused by recent flooding, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, at the Hilton & Cook Marketplace in Leominster, Mass.
Emergency sirens could be heard late Wednesday afternoon in parts of Providence, Rhode Island, as cell phones pinged with a tornado warning. By early evening, the weather service said a severe thunderstorm capable of producing tornadoes was moving quickly east toward the Massachusetts border, from Cumberland, Rhode Island.
“Something that looks pretty minor can, just within a couple of hours, turn into something very serious, potentially deadly and very, very destructive,” Healey said. DeCicco said he lived through the Blizzard of 1978 that dumped 30 inches of snow and an ice storm in 2008, but he said the intensity of the electrical storm and torrents of rain were a shock.
Rain from Hurricane Lee didn’t contribute to the flooding earlier this week. But it could inundate parts of the coastal Northeast during the weekend, forecasters said. Lee is traveling north and could make landfall in Nova Scotia, Canada, possibly as a tropical storm, forecasters said.
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