Oh noooo!! Honestly, who would expect to encounter hurricanes during the annual hurricane season?
[NYPOST] A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for Bermuda as powerful Hurricane Lee continues to churn in the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and as the once Category 5 hurricane
......starts to make a turn to the north, millions of people in New England will need to begin to prepare for potential impacts including possible tropical-storm-force winds, dangerous surf and life-threatening rip currents.
A US landfall from Hurricane Lee is not expected as of the latest National Hurricane Center (NHC) advisory, and instead, the forecast calls for Lee to hit Canada.
But on Monday, land was included in Lee’s forecast cone for the first time in the storm’s history.
Forecasters expect Hurricane Lee to continue weakening as it moves closer to New England and become extratropical, so for those living in New England the potential impacts will be more like a nor’easter during the winter rather than a land-falling hurricane.
There is also the potential for those areas to see tropical-storm-force winds of 40 mph or greater.
Large waves, too, will be slamming up against the shore, bringing the risk of beach erosion and coastal flooding.
WHERE IS HURRICANE LEE?
As of the latest NHC advisory, Hurricane Lee is located about 400 miles south-southwest of Bermuda and is moving to the northwest at 7 mph and has maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, making it a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
Slow weakening is forecast to begin over the next two days, but Lee is still expected to remain a large and powerful hurricane, according to the NHC.