Within two weeks of Hurricane Idalia tearing into Florida and moving up into Georgia and the Carolinas, another hurricane threatens the United States's East Coast, with the National Hurricane Center warning that Hurricane Lee "is forecast to become an extremely dangerous major hurricane by Friday."
The hurricane isn't currently threatening anyone on land. That's a relief: Lee's maximum sustained winds are now predicted to top 160 mph by this weekend.
Hurricane Lee was rapidly strengthening in the Atlantic Thursday and was expected to remain an “extremely dangerous” and possibly Category 5 storm into next week, forecasters said.
Large ocean swells are expected to reach the Lesser Antilles by Friday, and then the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Bermuda and Hispaniola by the weekend, the hurricane center said.
Hurricane Lee strengthened to a Category 5 storm late Thursday night, forecasters said, and could present potentially dangerous beach conditions on the U.S. East Coast as early as this Sunday.
Lee quickly strengthened into a hurricane Wednesday and was expected to intensify into a dangerous Category 4 storm over the next few days, forecasters said.
Lee, which strengthened from a tropical storm into a hurricane on Wednesday in the Atlantic, is forecast to become an extremely dangerous hurricane by early Friday.
Tropical Storm Lee has officially become Hurricane Lee, doing so Wednesday afternoon in the Atlantic Ocean as the storm charges towards the United States.
The major storm barreled through open ocean about 705 miles east of the northern Leeward Island with winds of up to 160 miles per hour as it moved west-northwest.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hurricane Lee is now a Category 4 storm, still rapidly intensifying in the eastern Atlantic and predicted to reach Category 5 strength, the National Hurricane Center
As of Friday morning, Hurricane Lee was around 630 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands and is moving to the northwest at around 14 miles per hour.
Hurricane Lee weakened slightly to a Category 4 storm after reaching Category 5 strength Thursday night. Lee is expected to remain a powerful storm through early next week as its potential path for East Coast impacts remains uncertain.
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