Hurricane

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, a Category 1 storm churning in the Atlantic Ocean, is bringing dangerous rip currents to the East Coast before heading to New England, where a hurricane watch is in effect. The winds and rain will reach Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine by the weekend. Latest headlines: -Lee passes […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, a Category 2 storm churning in the Atlantic Ocean, is bringing dangerous rip currents and huge waves to the East Coast. Alerts for high surf and rip currents have been issued from Florida to Massachusetts. Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern: Sep 14, 6:07 AM […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, which is crawling through the Atlantic Ocean as a major Category 3 storm, is bringing dangerous rip currents and huge waves to the East Coast. Here’s what you need to know: Alerts for high surf and rip currents have been issued from Florida to Massachusetts. On Wednesday, the Carolinas […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, which is crawling through the Atlantic Ocean as a major Category 3 storm, might impact coastal New England this weekend. But regardless of Lee’s path, dangerous rip currents, rough surf, huge waves and beach erosion are expected up and down the East Coast through the week and weekend. Here’s […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee is increasing in strength, becoming a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday as it churned over the Atlantic Ocean with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph. The hurricane is currently moving to the northwest at 8 mph, with its center located about 285 miles north, northeast of the Leeward Islands. […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee is churning over the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph, just below the strength of a Category 5, which begins at 157 mph winds. On Thursday, Lee strengthened from a Category 2 hurricane to a Category 4, and finally to a […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, now a powerful Category 4 hurricane, is one of only a handful of hurricanes in the Atlantic basin during the satellite era to intensify by 85 mph or more within a 24-hour period. The storm intensified more than twice the National Hurricane Center’s definition of rapid intensification. Rapid […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, now churning over the Atlantic Ocean, has become a Category 5. As a Category 5, hurricane Lee is expected to have winds of 160 mph. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) sent out an advisory notice after Lee became a Category 5, warning that dangerous beach conditions were expected […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, now churning over the Atlantic Ocean, intensified very rapidly on Thursday, strengthening from a Category 2 hurricane to a Category 4 hurricane. Lee is forecast to become a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph by Thursday night. Lee is expected to move north of the Caribbean […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, now churning in the Atlantic, is forecast to quickly intensify to an extremely dangerous major hurricane. Lee, which strengthened from a tropical storm to a hurricane on Wednesday, will likely become a major hurricane by Friday and a Category 4 hurricane with winds up to 150 mph by […]