Bermuda is getting Lee as a tropical storm with winds, rain and storm surges….
This year’s storms keep coming at America and the World…..
Hurricane Lee was barreling toward eastern New England and Canada’s Atlantic coast Thursday and was expected to make landfall over the weekend, forecasters said. The Category 1 storm, which grew at one point last week to Category 5 strength, was expected to “remain a very large and dangerous cyclone” as it continued on a trajectory north, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Lee has prompted a hurricane watch to be issued in Maine for the first time since 2008, CBS News senior weather and climate producer David Parkinson reported. The hurricane center said Thursday that hurricane conditions were possible in Down East Maine on Saturday.
Forecasters warned that coastal areas from New York’s Long Island to the U.S.-Canada border, including Boston Harbor, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts, could see between 1-3 feet in storm surge if the surge peaks at the same time as high tide.
Stephanie Abrams, a meteorologist with The Weather Channel, said on “CBS Mornings” on Thursday that the storm was expected to make landfall between Saturday and Sunday. Lee was expected to dump rain on already saturated ground, which could lead to flash flooding.
“This storm will be affecting more than just the coast,” Abrams said. “… The winds will ramp up on Friday, crank through the day on Saturday and then slowly start to taper off as we head into our Sunday.”…