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Article first published: Thursday, Sep. 07, 2023, 5 a.m. ET Article last updated: Thursday, Sep. 07, 2023, 11 a.m. ET As per the National Hurricane Center's 11 am Thursday update, Lee has reached new heights of intensity and has upgraded from a Category 1 hurricane into a Category 2 hurricane, with winds blowing at 105 miles per hour. Category 2 Hurricane Lee is 870 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands, with maximum sustained wind of 105 mph. It’s moving 15 mph to the west-northwest. "... the core of Lee...

BUT IT’LL BE A 30% CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. LET’S GET YOU BACK TO THE TROPICS. WE’RE STILL LOOKING AT HURRICANE LEE. WINDS OF 80MPH, MOVING TO THE WEST NORTHWEST AT 13MPH. MOST ACTUALLY A GUIDANCE MODEL. SO MOST SPAGHETTI PLOT MODELS ARE KIND OF LIFTING THIS CURVING THIS TO THE NORTH. WHAT I FIND INTERESTING IS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER STILL POTENTIALLY KEEPING THE WESTERLY COMPONENT TO THIS TRACK. REMEMBER THE TRACK ACTUALLY IS WHERE THE CENTER OF THE STORM IS GOING TO GO. SO...

YOU’RE INLAND OR ACROSS THE COAST. BUT OUT IN THE TROPICS, WE ARE FOUR DAYS AWAY FROM THE PEAK OF THE HURRICANE SEASON. AND MOTHER NATURE’S HEATING UP JUST ON TIME. TROPICAL STORM LEE, WE TALKED ABOUT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SHOW, LIKELY TO BECOME A CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE BY THE START OF THE NEXT WORK WEEK. BUT WE’RE STILL WATCHING INVEST 96 NOW, THIS IS JUST OFF THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. A CLUSTER OF STORMS WITH WIND SPEEDS OF 30MPH. AND KEEP IN MIND, THESE WATERS OF...

Hurricane Lee, the latest Atlantic hurricane this season, formed Wednesday afternoon east of the Leeward Islands on a track that could put it close to the East Coast, and forecasters warn it could develop into a major hurricane by the end of the week, just over a week after Hurricane Idalia wreaked havoc on Florida. Lee, which had strengthened into a tropical storm on Tuesday, is traveling west-northwest at a speed of 14 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, making it a Category 1 hurricane, according to the...

At 5:00 p.m. the center of now Hurricane Lee was located near latitude 14.9 North, longitude 46.4 West. Lee has slowed down and is now moving toward the west-northwest near 14 mph and this motion is expected to continue for the next few days with a slight reduction in forward speed over the weekend. Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 75 mph with higher gusts. Continued steady to rapid strengthening and Lee is expected to become a major hurricane in a day or two. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up...

MIAMI - The CBS News Miami NEXT Weather team is tracking Hurricane Lee which in the Central Atlantic. With the 5 p.m. advisory, Lee became a hurricane and is expected to strengthen into a dangerous major Category 4 hurricane by Saturday because the wind shear will lessen and it will be over very warm water. The center of Lee was about 1,130 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands. It was moving west-northwest at 14 mph with sustained winds of 70 mph. Although Lee is forecast to possibly stay north...

MIAMI – The National Hurricane Center expects Tropical Storm Lee to quickly strengthen into a major Category 4 storm by Friday as it approaches the U.S. east coast, with models expecting it to make a sharp turn further north. While that turn is expected, as of Wednesday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center has not yet officially forecasted that in its cone, which broadly expects the storm to by Monday be somewhere north of Puerto Rico. Lee was named by the center on Tuesday. It originated from a tropical wave off...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Lee could be one for the books by early next week. The storm, which officially developed Tuesday, is expected to rapidly strengthen over the weekend into at least a Category 4 hurricane as it passes north of the Caribbean. Given the near-perfect environment of limited wind shear and record-hot water temperatures, Lee reaching Category 5 intensity is a strong possibility. The intensity at this point is much more certain than the long-term track, however. In the short-term, confidence is high that a strengthening Lee will lift north...

NEW JERSEY — As another potential Category 4 hurricane is on track to affect Florida, forecasters have an eye on how Lee (currently a tropical storm) could impact the East Coast and the Jersey Shore. On Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Lee is now close to hurricane strength with 70 mph maximum sustained winds with higher gusts, "and is likely to rapidly intensify into an extremely dangerous major hurricane by Saturday," said NHC senior hurricane specialist and warning coordination meteorologist Daniel Brown. Once sustained winds reach 74...