{"id":2025370,"date":"2023-09-08T01:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-becomes-powerful-category-5-hurricane\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T01:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:07:13","slug":"lee-becomes-powerful-category-5-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-becomes-powerful-category-5-hurricane\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee strengthens to a devastating Category 5 hurricane."},"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%2Flee-becomes-powerful-category-5-hurricane%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=2025370&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: \u200bA Dangerous Category 5 Storm<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hurricane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane<\/a> Lee has become a \u201cdangerous\u201d Category 5 storm over the Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center \u2063(NHC) announced late \u2063Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter found that the hurricane \u201cskyrocketed\u201d to the high end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/aboutsshws.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saffir-Simpson\u200b Hurricane \u2063Wind Scale<\/a> during the day with sustained\u200b maximum winds of 160 miles \u200bper hour, the federal agency \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCDAT3+shtml\/080252.shtml?\">explained<\/a> in an 11 p.m.\u2063 ET discussion \u200bpost.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is expected\u2064 to maintain a \u201csteady\u201d track to the west-northwest, passing \u201cwell to the\u2064 north\u201d of\u2062 the northern Leeward \u2063Islands, the Virgin\u2062 Islands, and Puerto \u2063Rico\u200b over\u200d the next five days, NHC said.<\/p>\n<p>During that period, Lee may slightly diminish to Category 4 status, which would\u200b still \u200bkeep it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doubling-spending-to-prepare-for-hurricanes-storms\/\" title=\"Biden Doubling Spending to Prepare for Hurricanes, Storms\">major hurricane<\/a> with the potential for\u200c \u201ccatastrophic\u201d damage, according \u2064to the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/aboutsshws.php\">Saffir-Simpson Hurricane \u200dWind Scale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lee, now a category five hurricane with winds of 160 mph, is\u2062 still \u200bexpected to\u200b turn north before reaching the \u2064U.S. \u2063East Coast next week. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wRk5uHo5YR\">pic.twitter.com\/wRk5uHo5YR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Spann (@spann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spann\/status\/1699981624677429316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Afterward, the track for Hurricane \u200cLee becomes\u2063 far less certain, as is often \u200dthe case with extended forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough \u2064there are\u200c some indications that Lee might begin\u200b a northward turn \u2064around the middle of next week, \u2062it is still way\u2062 [too] soon to focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-becomes-powerful-category-5-hurricane\/\" title=\"Lee strengthens to a devastating Category 5 hurricane.\">specific model \u200cscenarios<\/a> that far out into the future,\u201d\u2062 NHC said.<\/p>\n<p>Some \u2062computer models indicated on Thursday that Hurricane\u200c Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hurricane-lee-expected-to-reach-category-5-strength\">could threaten to directly impact<\/a>, if not make landfall, over the Mid-Atlantic, New England, or Canada. \u2064Another possibility is that the storm\u200b gets\u2063 steered away from the U.S.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: \u2063CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LEE?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LEE<\/a>. \u2064160 MPH WINDS.\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TropicalUpdate?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TropicalUpdate<\/a> \ud83c\udf00 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wN6wIOU8K6\">pic.twitter.com\/wN6wIOU8K6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dylan Federico (@DylanFedericoWX) \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DylanFedericoWX\/status\/1699980711493542146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDangerous \u200csurf and \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-lee-intensifies-to-category-5\/\" title=\"Hurricane Lee now a Category 5 storm.\">life-threatening rip currents<\/a> \u2064are \u200dlikely in the northern Leeward \u2062Islands beginning\u2062 Friday. These conditions will spread westward and northward, affecting Puerto Rico,\u2062 Hispaniola, the Turks and Caicos,\u2064 the \u200cBahamas, \u2064and Bermuda through the \u2064weekend,\u201d the NHC said as one of its \u201ckey messages\u201d in its 11 p.m. post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is way too \u2064soon to know\u200c what level of impacts, if any, Lee might have along the U.S. \u2063East Coast, Atlantic Canada, or Bermuda late next week, particularly \u2062since the hurricane is expected to slow \u2064down considerably \u200dover\u2062 the southwestern Atlantic,\u201d NHC said in another message. \u2062\u201cRegardless, dangerous\u200b surf and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dead-body-found-hundreds-of-yards-from-bidens-rehoboth-beach-house\/\" title=\"Dead body discovered near Biden's Rehoboth Beach residence.\">rip \u2063currents<\/a> are expected along most of the \u200bU.S. \u00a0East Coast beginning \u200cSunday. Continue to monitor updates to Lee\u2019s forecast during the \u2063next\u200c several \u200bdays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Weather Channel also emphasized the uncertainty in the longterm forecast, \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2023-09-06-hurricane-lee-forecast-atlantic-rapid-intensification\">but warned<\/a> \u201cBermuda, the northeast\u2063 U.S.\u2063 coast\u2063 and Atlantic Canada should monitor \u200bthe \u200dforecast closely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The \u200dAtlantic hurricane season, which stretches from June 1 to November 30, is currently at \u200cits peak. Lee is the first Category 5 hurricane \u2062since last season. Tropical \u2062Storm \u2064Margot has formed over the eastern Atlantic Ocean, and so far the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCDAT4+shtml\/080253.shtml?\">NHC forecast calls for it stay\u200b out to sea<\/a> as it becomes a hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>Another\u2062 hurricane\u200b named Idalia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/electric-vehicles-catch-fire-after-hurricane-idalia-flooding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slammed into Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast last week<\/a>,\u200c causing flooding, power\u2062 outages, \u200dand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/regional\/florida\/hurricane-idalia-death-toll\/67-c1119bc7-30bb-45b6-9170-b7b8551a57d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least two deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported. Hurricane Lee rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm, reaching sustained maximum winds of 160 mph. The NHC deemed it &#8220;dangerous&#8221; as it poses a significant threat over the Atlantic Ocean. An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter provided this crucial information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2025371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}