Hurricane Lee has restrengthened because it churns west-northwest within the tropical Atlantic Ocean and is predicted to deliver harmful surf and rip currents to the US East Coast from Sunday night time for a minimum of a number of days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center stated.
The storm, about 285 miles (455 km) northeast of the northern Leeward Islands, ought to go north of Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and different Caribbean islands.
Lee was packing winds of 120 mph (195 kph), the forecaster stated. It restrengthened to a Category 3 storm after being downgraded to Category 2 earlier on Sunday and will see extra strengthening through the subsequent day or so, the National Hurricane Center stated.
The forecaster stated swells affecting parts of the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas and Bermuda are prone to trigger life-threatening surf and rip present situations.
Dangerous surf and rip currents have begun to succeed in parts of the U.S. southeast coast and will worsen and unfold northward through the subsequent couple of days.
Sunday seemed to be simply one other scorching and humid late summer time day in Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, the place folks walked by the seaside or exercised, and companies have been open.
“So far it’s just a normal day,” Kelly Herrera, a visitor service agent on the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel on San Juan’s seaside entrance, stated in a cellphone interview.
Herrera stated folks have been suggested to keep away from the water in preparation for swells and harmful rip currents generated by the storm.
The National Weather Service’s workplace in Puerto Rico forecast waves of 6 to 10 ft, presumably greater, in some coastal areas.
Published On:
Sep 11, 2023
