Hurricane Lee is surging through the Atlantic as the season’s first Category 5 storm and threatens to unleash heavy swells in the northeast Caribbean.
Hurricane Lee charged through warm Atlantic waters Friday as the season’s firstThe hurricane is not expected to make landfall, but meteorologists warned that it would generate dangerous waves of up to 15 feet across theand other nearby islands. While Lee is on a path that would take it a couple hundred miles northeast of the Caribbean, tropical storm conditions are not forecast for the region.
“Although the hurricane is incredibly powerful, its wind field is not particularly large,” the National Hurricane Center said.The hurricane was about 630 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands. It had winds of up to 165 miles per hour and was moving west-northwest at 14 mph. Lee is expected to keep strengthening and reach winds of up to 180 mph. Only seven Atlantic hurricanes have had winds of that magnitude since 1966, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. Among those was Hurricane Dorian, whichas a Category 5 storm, hovering over small islands for about two days.
The center said that dangerous surf and deadly rip currents would probably hit the northern Leeward Islands later Friday. They would spread to Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, the Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas and Bermuda over the weekend.
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