Beautiful sunsets in New England as vacationers and residents prepare for Hurricane Lee
AccuWeather's Bill Wadell reported live from Massachusetts, under a brilliant sunset, on the evening of Sept. 15 as Hurricane Lee barreled northward.
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00:00 Unfortunately, we'll have some of the strongest impacts with Lee as it moves
00:04 northward and that's where we find Accuweather's Bill Waddell. He's in
00:07 Provincetown, Massachusetts. Bill, we're looking at, well, we're gonna see a
00:12 pretty significant storm here so some people will not let a hurricane get in
00:16 their way of their vacation, we understand. Yeah, that's right, Jeff and
00:21 Melissa. People who planned a mid-September trip here to the coast
00:24 months ago, some of those people telling us they weren't going to cancel no matter
00:28 what was going on, even if there was a hurricane in the forecast. I just want to
00:32 step out of the way to show you we were treated to an absolutely beautiful
00:35 sunset here at the coast. The winds are starting to kick up right now, gusting
00:40 about 30 miles an hour at times, but these winds really gonna kick up later
00:45 tonight after dark, overnight, when we could be seeing wind gusts above 60 miles
00:50 an hour at times. Now, you could see we've been dealing with rough surf and wind
00:55 all afternoon here at Race Point Beach. That's the far northeastern part of the
00:59 Cape with tall dunes that protects Provincetown from the worst of the
01:04 weather impacts. Now, people were out here snapping photos of seals, walking the
01:08 dog, one family even trying to have a picnic in the wind. Robin Yeager flew in
01:12 from Cleveland, Ohio this morning, telling us no matter what was going on, she was
01:17 gonna try her best to enjoy family time, even with a hurricane approaching. We
01:22 almost canceled our trip. We've been watching this dumb hurricane spin out
01:27 there for like a week and a half, and we decided to come anyway, and we're glad we
01:32 did. So, sees the seals bobbing in the water, and I don't know, we'll see what
01:36 happens tonight. Nothing got canceled so far. We're making the most of it. And you
01:43 can see those seals out catching a breath before diving ahead of those big
01:47 waves. Local authorities are warning people to stay away from this water,
01:51 though. We could be seeing some very dangerous rip currents, along with beach
01:55 erosion in this area. Now, some people that we have been talking with, they tell
01:59 us, Jeff, that they are concerned for the lobster and the fishing crews that have
02:03 been out, most of them hopefully to shore or to harbor by now, but we know some of
02:07 them were making last-minute plans watching the track of this storm. Of
02:11 course, a lot of people up this way, that's how they make their living, off on
02:14 the water. So, in our next hour, we're gonna be hearing from those people, as
02:17 well as the concern about power outages here as Lee approaches. AccuBrothers,
02:22 Bill Waddell, thanks for that report. Beautiful sunset. We're seeing some
02:25 similar scenes, Bill, into New York City and beyond. And right down the road into
02:31 Boston, look at this. Isn't that spectacular? It's not uncommon for us to
02:35 find just gorgeous sunrises and sunsets around the periphery of hurricanes,
02:39 partly because they have such a large shield of high-level clouds, and a lot of
02:44 the time under those clouds, there aren't other storm systems competing or vying
02:48 for position on the weather map. So, you're gonna also have, frequently, a lack
02:52 of clouds in the low and mid levels of the atmosphere. The perfect ingredients
02:55 for a great sunset typically involve a clear low to mid level in the atmosphere
02:59 and a thin layer of high clouds. So, there it is. Isn't that just spectacular?
03:04 Beautiful shot here from thebostonwebcam.com, and if you're in the
03:08 Northeast, get out and enjoy it if you can.