Millions of people are under storm watches and warnings as Hurricane Lee churns towards shore, bearing down on New England and eastern Canada with heavy winds, high seas and rain.
This Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, 4:06 p.m. EDT satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Lee, right, near New England and Eastern Canada. A tropical storm warning extended from Maine through Massachusetts, with powerful gusts forecast to arrive late in the day in southern New England. Maine and coastal Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are expected to see the brunt of the storm's remnants on Saturday.
The storm was forecast to brush the New England coast before making landfall later Saturday in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, which along with New Brunswick will see the brunt of it. But Lee's effects were expected to be felt over an immense area. The National Hurricane Center predicted hurricane-force winds extending more than 100 miles from Lee’s center with lesser but still dangerous tropical storm-force gusts up to 345 miles miles outward.
Parts of coastal Maine could see waves up to 15 feet high crashing down, causing erosion and damage, and the strong gusts will cause power outages, said Louise Fode, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Maine. As much as 5 inches of rain was forecast for eastern Maine, where a flash flood watch was in effect.
“There’s going to be huge white rollers coming in on top of 50- to 60-mph winds. It’ll be quite entertaining,” Bar Harbor lobsterman Bruce Young said Friday. Still, he had his boat moved to the local airport, saying it’s better to be safe than sorry.
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