{"id":2024258,"date":"2023-09-07T04:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T08:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-lee-expected-to-become-extremely-dangerous-by-friday\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T08:23:09","slug":"hurricane-lee-expected-to-become-extremely-dangerous-by-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-lee-expected-to-become-extremely-dangerous-by-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Lee set to intensify significantly by Friday."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhurricane-lee-expected-to-become-extremely-dangerous-by-friday%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2024258&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Hurricane Lee Poses New Threat \u200cto East Coast<\/h2>\n<p>Within \u2064two weeks of Hurricane Idalia tearing into Florida\u200c and moving up into Georgia and the Carolinas, another hurricane threatens the United States&#8217;s\u2063 East Coast, with the National Hurricane \u200bCenter warning that Hurricane Lee &#8220;is forecast to become an\u200b extremely \u2062dangerous major hurricane by \u200cFriday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The agency&#8217;s branch\u2064 in Miami said \u2062on Tuesday night that no &#8220;direct impacts&#8221; to South Florida were expected\u2063 at \u200cthat time. If it does hit land, the storm appears more likely to wreak havoc in the eastern Caribbean, with the eye of the storm projected to hit just north of Puerto Rico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. However, storm paths can change quickly, and recovering from the effects of Idalia, Florida and even\u2063 Carolina residents are concerned \u200bthe newest hurricane could come for them.<\/p>\n<h3>Lee&#8217;s Strength and Potential Impact<\/h3>\n<p>As of the NHC&#8217;s most recent update late Wednesday\u2062 night, Lee&#8217;s winds have increased to about 80 \u200bmph, \u200cand &#8220;additional strengthening is forecast,&#8221; with &#8220;rapid intensification \u200cexpected \u2062to begin on Thursday.&#8221; The potential maximum wind \u200dspeeds could reach 150 mph, putting the hurricane at \u2063the higher end of\u2063 the Category 4 range, even possibly \u200dreaching Category 5 level, with winds at 157 mph or\u2064 higher.<\/p>\n<p>Swells in the Caribbean this weekend into early next week\u200d &#8220;are likely to\u200b cause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-declares-emergency-in-33-florida-counties-as-storm-system-gathers-steam\/\" title=\"DeSantis declares emergency in 33 FL counties as storm approaches.\">life-threatening surf<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-hilary-downgraded-as-storm-to-cause-life-threatening-flooding-in-california\/\" title=\"Hurricane Hilary now a storm, but still poses 'life-threatening floods' in California.\">rip current conditions<\/a>,&#8221; according to the NHC.<\/p>\n<p>According to forecasters,\u2062 the most likely scenario is that the storm turns north next week before it\u200b reaches the East Coast. But even if the storm misses the land directly, its \u2063currents could still have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-officials-accelerate-plans-to-demolish-unstable-remains-of-surfside-condo-as-tropical-storm-approaches\/\" title=\"Florida Officials Accelerate Plans To Demolish Unstable Remains Of Surfside Condo As Tropical Storm Approaches\">major impacts<\/a> on the coastline.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Ocean\u2064 currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-lee-expected-to-become-extremely-dangerous-by-friday\/\" title=\"Hurricane Lee set to intensify significantly by Friday.\">faces record-warm temperatures<\/a>, which is only exacerbating the \u2062threat\u200d of Hurricane Lee. &#8220;To get to Category \u20644 or\u2064 5 intensity the environment\u2064 has to be nearly perfect, which it looks like is the \u2064forecast for Lee,&#8221; David Zierden, Florida\u2019s state climatologist, said, per CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tornado-spins-pickup-truck-around-on-roadway-in-texas\/\" title=\"WATCH: Tornado Spins Pickup Truck Around on Roadway in Texas\">severe weather threat<\/a> comes in the wake of Hurricane Idalia, which slammed into Florida&#8217;s\u200d &#8220;Big Bend&#8221; last week. The storm had additional \u2064bizarre \u2064ramifications, such as flamingos, typically \u2064found in the\u2062 Caribbean,\u2064 being spotted in unusual spots in the storm&#8217;s aftermath, including as far north as the greater\u200b Cincinnati \u200darea in Ohio.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>DEMOCRAT LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN IN VIRGINIA FOR VULNERABLE REPUBLICAN&#8217;S HOUSE SEAT<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">here<\/a><\/strong>  \u200d to read more from \u200bThe\u200d Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within 14 days of Hurricane Idalia hitting Florida and progressing towards Georgia and the Carolinas, Hurricane Lee poses a new threat to the East Coast. The National Hurricane Center predicts that Lee will intensify into a highly perilous major hurricane by Friday. 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