However, it adds, "This is a very long-range forecast and LOTS can and will change in the coming days. "At this time, most longer range models do NOT have Lee making landfall anywhere on the East Coast, including New England," CBS Boston reports. Meanwhile, the GFS, or American model, has Lee scraping Cape Cod, and then heading into the Canadian Maritimes. The ECMWF, or European model, has Lee staying out to sea and not making a direct landfall, but coming very close to the U.S. As of Wednesday, the track was closer to the East Coast. Levi Cowan SeptemWill Hurricane Lee hit the Northeast?ĬBS New York reports the forecast models have been going back and forth on the track of the storm - at first, on Sunday night, they were suggesting a landfall in the Mid-Atlantic region, then on Monday, going out to sea. Hurricane #Lee went from having no eye this morning to possibly Cat 5 intensity this evening. This is one of the most impressive rapid intensification episodes I've ever seen in the Atlantic. On Friday morning, Parkinson said the chances of Lee hitting land were below 2% from New Jersey on south below 10% for Long Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts and below 20% for northern New England, adding that forecasters will have a much clearer picture of Lee's likely path by the middle of next week. Right now, it's too early to say whether Hurricane Lee will make landfall, or where it would hit if it does, forecasters said. How do hurricanes get their names? A look at the naming process and 2023's full list of storms.There are no coastal warnings or watches in effect at this time, the hurricane center said. "These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions," the agency reported. and British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Hispaniola by the weekend, the hurricane center said. Large ocean swells generated by Lee were expected to reach the Lesser Antilles by Friday, and the U.S. The Leewards are a group of islands where the Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean, including the Virgin Islands, St. Lee's center is forecast to pass "well to the north of the northern Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico over the weekend and into early next week."
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