Hurricane Lee’s impacts of powerful winds, coastal flooding hours away from New England as storm charges north
By Chris Oberholtz, FOX Weather
Published Sep. 15, 2023, 1:02 p.m. ET
New England is just hours away from feeling the first significant impacts from Hurricane Lee as the powerful storm accelerates north Friday morning, carrying a range of dangerous weather including strong winds and powerful surf to last through at least Saturday.
While the center of the storm will likely stay east of the U.S. and move into the Canadian Maritimes, Lee’s massive wind field spreads hundreds of miles across and will not spare the New England coast from its wrath, the FOX Forecast Center said.
Conditions will deteriorate Friday evening, and be at their worst on Saturday before rapidly winding down late Saturday into early Sunday morning.
In Massachusetts, winds were increasing Friday late morning as gusts were reported around 40 mph in Nantucket.
Preparations were also racing to completion in places like Cape Cod as Lee’s impacts are expected to be felt through the weekend.
Boat owners began tying down their vessels or removing them completely from the harbors in hopes of saving the ships from destruction from powerful winds and waves.
The current forecast has Lee making landfall likely along the western shores of Nova Scotia or perhaps the extreme southwestern corner of New Brunswick.
But Lee’s large size means the exact landfall location will minimally affect expected impacts.
“Looking at the cone, you’ll notice it’s going to be very skinny,” FOX Weather meteorologist Britta Merwin said. “The impacts will be outside the cone, especially when it comes to the wind because the wind field is growing with this storm.”
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