Cat 5 Hurricane Lee had a lot of potential. Large, powerful, headed directly toward the Southeast Seaboard. The Climate Cult was dropping in their kale soup. But something’s gone wrong. As hinted here, this hurricane has changed direction, and the American Southeast can breathe a sigh of relief.
Current projections show the storm hanging a hard right and drifting north, losing strength as it does. The track as of this morning shows Lee reaming away from the coast and out to sea while shifting toward the Northeast.
The outer edges of the then-estimated Cat 1 hurricane could brush the cape and islands by Friday Morning unless Lee takes another turn.
Here’s another view with Margot, still a tropical storm projected to continue north across the Atlantic.
There is more activity off the Coast of Africa, but nothing yet worth naming, which seems odd, given that they name everything, so they can say we had this many named “storms.” OMG, more named storms, global warming!
As for Lee, it is (again) still too early to tell how it will track as it gets closer to my corner of the world, or what if it will still be a Cat 1, but we’ll check back in a few days. Forecasters can’t predict much (except for the temperature 100 years from now /sarc), but one thing the weather does do is change, especially around these parts.
It’s New England. If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes.
[Update] New projections show the ‘Eye’ of (by then) Tropical Storm Lee making landfall on Sunday, Sept. 17th, in New Brunswick, Canada, with its area of effect covering much of Maine.
Lee has yet to make the official turn, so nothing is fixed until it happens, but such is the way of the weather (except as noted above).
