Lee, a Category 3 hurricane on Tuesday morning, was centered about 575 miles south of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.
A larger Hurricane Lee, then, is more likely to affect the Eastern Seaboard – even if not through a direct landfall.
Those tropical storm-force winds could extend over 300 miles from Lee’s center later this week, National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan said in a Monday storm briefing.
It’s too soon to know the extent of the impacts Lee might have along the Northeast US and Atlantic Canada late this week and this weekend, the hurricane center said.
Three people in New Jersey died in rip currents kicked up in the wake of Hurricane Franklin last week.
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