Hurricane Lee remained a serious Category 3 storm with a path that would hit New England or Canada this weekend whereas the National Hurricane Center continued to trace Hurricane Margot and one different system with a excessive probability of turning into the following tropical melancholy or storm.
As of 5 a.m. Hurricane Lee had 115 mph sustained winds and better gusts positioned about 575 miles south of Bermuda transferring west-northwest at 7 mph. Its hurricane-force winds lengthen out 80 miles and its tropical-storm-force winds lengthen out 185 miles.
“A slow west-northwest to northwest motion is expected during the next day or two, followed by a turn toward the north by midweek,” forecasters stated. “On the forecast track, Lee is expected to pass near but to the west of Bermuda in a few days.”
A hurricane look ahead to Bermuda might come later right this moment.
“While the core of the hurricane is forecast to pass west of Bermuda, the large wind field of the storm is likely to bring wind impacts to the island later this week,” forecasters stated.
Its five-day cone of uncertainty has it diminishing in power by means of the weekend, however with a possible landfall that features Cape Cod in Massachusetts, Maine, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. But at that time, the storm is predicted to be shifting into an extratropical storm with 70 mph winds.
“Despite the weakening that is forecast, keep in mind that the expanding wind field of Lee will produce impacts well away from the storm center,” forecasters stated.
In addition, its swells have been hitting Florida and different components of the U.S. East Coast in addition to parts of the Lesser Antilles, the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Turks and Caicos, Bahamas and Bermuda.
“These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. Dangerous surf and rip currents are affecting portions of the southeastern U.S. coast, and these conditions are forecast to spread northward along much of the U.S. East Coast during the next couple of days,” in response to the NHC advisory.
#Lee has now generated 4 main (Category 3+) #hurricane days – essentially the most for an Atlantic hurricane since Sam (2021). pic.twitter.com/K5BMxeoukZ
— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) September 12, 2023
Hurricane Lee has generated greater than 4 days of exercise rated as a serious hurricane. It shaped as a Category 1 hurricane Wednesday night. It then shot as much as Category 5 by Thursday night and reached a peak power of 165 mph sustained winds on Friday morning.
While it had been projected to develop even additional, circumstances prompted the system to dial again, however apart from an 18-hour run on Saturday into Sunday, the system has remained Category 3 with at the least 115 mph sustained winds.
It’s the third main hurricane of the season following Franklin and Idalia, which struck Florida’s Gulf Coast on Aug. 30.
Meanwhile, newly shaped Hurricane Margot, the fifth hurricane total this yr, continues to develop within the jap Atlantic.
At 5 a.m. Hurricane Margo had 85 mph sustained winds protecting it a Category 1 hurricane. It was positioned about 935 miles southwest of the Azores transferring north at 13 mph.
“A northward to north-northwestward motion with a decrease in forward speed is expected during the next few days,” forecasters stated. “Additional strengthening is forecast during the next day or so. Weakening is likely to begin by Thursday.”
Its hurricane-force winds lengthen out 25 miles and tropical-storm-force winds lengthen out 140 miles.
The NHC can also be monitoring a tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa this week that has grown right into a broad space of low stress with disorganized showers and thunderstorms. It’s now approaching the central tropical Atlantic effectively southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.
“This system is expected to consolidate with a low on the western side becoming dominant over the next day or two,” forecasters stated. “Gradual development of the low is expected after that and a tropical depression is likely to form by this weekend while the system moves west-northwestward or
northwestward at about 15 mph across the central tropical Atlantic.”
The NHC offers it a 20% probability to kind within the subsequent two days and 70% within the subsequent seven.
If it grows into named-storm power, it might grow to be Tropical Storm Nigel, the 14th named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season that runs by means of Nov. 30.
