Dangerous conditions are expected to unfold as Lee races northward, with landfall expected to take place this weekend.
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00:00 Alright, Lee continues its move to the north.
00:03 That north movement will continue tonight.
00:05 You'll note on the satellite picture it doesn't look like a hurricane does it right now.
00:10 Let me show it to you.
00:11 Usually in a hurricane, what do you look like in a hurricane?
00:13 You have a center of circulation and then you have clouds around that center of circulation.
00:18 As I say, hurricanes look like almost like what you would see as a period, right?
00:24 Well, this looks more like a nor'easter right now.
00:27 Looks more like a comma.
00:29 And that is a classic signature of a hurricane that's transitioning from a purely tropical
00:34 system to more of a winter-like storm.
00:37 The reason that's happening, it's over colder water temperatures.
00:40 Water temperatures are lower.
00:42 Also drier air has made it in around the southern side of the storm.
00:46 So the entire southern side of the eye wall has now, or the eye has been exposed to dry
00:52 air.
00:53 So it looks more and more like a winter storm.
00:54 Now what does that mean?
00:56 Instead of the strongest rain and wind right around the center of the storm, it's around
01:01 the entire periphery of the storm.
01:03 So now you have a storm that has a larger impact or an impact over a larger area.
01:08 That movement north, I still think Friday night, later tonight into Saturday, we'll
01:12 see if we get a jog to the northwest.
01:15 If that's the case, I think we can have a landfall that misses southwest Nova Scotia
01:20 and comes in the southern New Brunswick.
01:22 That would be 8, 9 o'clock Saturday night.
01:25 If it continues on its north movement, then we're probably talking about, I don't know,
01:29 5, 6 o'clock along the southwest coast of Nova Scotia.
01:32 So that's the time frame.
01:33 But remember, the landfall not as critical with Lee as let's say Edalia was, because
01:39 Edalia was a formed hurricane with the structure of a hurricane.
01:47 This is more like a nor'easter.
01:49 But the impacts are going to be huge.
01:50 This is going to be a big windmaker.
01:53 And because it's moving at around 20 miles per hour as it goes across New England, usually
01:58 these hurricanes or these storms move a little faster than that.
02:01 You're looking at a prolonged period of some gusty winds.
02:05 Let's talk about Boston itself.
02:07 From inside 128 toward 495, probably about 30 to 40 miles per hour.
02:12 You get toward the Boston Harbor, we're looking at 50 to 60 miles per hour, 60 to 70 miles
02:18 per hour wind gusts out on the Cape.
02:20 General Maine within that 40 to 60 miles per hour, except down east Maine a little higher,
02:25 we could be seeing 70 mile per hour wind gusts.
02:29 Also keep in mind, trees still have all of their leaves, so there's going to be some
02:33 downed trees, some downed power lines, and certainly some power outages.
02:37 As far as the storm surge is concerned, a general 1 to 3 feet except for a few areas.
02:43 And one of the main areas that we're concerned about is the south shore and north shore of
02:48 Massachusetts.
02:49 Here's the north shore, here's the south shore.
02:52 I think Boston Harbor is protected a little bit here, but when you get south of the harbor
02:56 and north of the harbor, where you have these north-facing, northeast-facing communities
03:01 and beaches, these are really going to get pounded by that northeasterly wind beginning
03:06 tonight, lasting into midday.
03:08 A lot of that water is going to be piling up as well.
03:11 Seas are going to be quite high as well.
03:14 So all of that water is going to be driven in toward these coasts.
03:17 So I think we're going to have some coastal flooding, beach erosion, and also some coastal
03:22 damage.
03:23 Again, the worst of the conditions later tonight and then into tomorrow.
03:27 Heaviest rain down east Maine, southern New Brunswick, where we could be looking at several
03:31 inches of rain.
03:32 Boston, unless there's more of a jog to the west, you'll likely get under a half an inch
03:36 of rain, but we could see an inch or two out on Cape Cod.
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