Hurricane Lee’s path LIVE: where and when this powerful category 5 cyclone will make landfall

Hurricane Lee gains strength and reaches Category 5 with winds that could reach maximums of 160 miles per hour (257 kilometers per hour) as it approaches from the Atlantic to the eastern Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center reported this Thursday night ( NHC, in English) of the United States. According to the latest NHC report, the hurricane was approximately 700 miles (1,127 kilometers) east of the northern Leeward Islands (a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles).

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Thus, according to predictions, Lee could register its maximum intensity, with strong waves and currents, during the weekend and move to the southwest of the Atlantic already during Monday or Tuesday, when it will be confirmed if it will finally touch the US mainland.

Lee formed this Tuesday in the center of the Atlantic, became a category 1 hurricane this Wednesday and this Thursday it rose to category 2 and hours later to 5, the maximum on the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale.

The path of Hurricane Lee. (NHC).

This powerful hurricane will generate “large swells” and “dangerous surf” in its wake, according to the NHC. So far, no coastal watches or advisories have been issued, but the Lesser Antilles remain vigilant about Lee’s development.

The meteorologists of NHCbased in Miami, warned that the dangerous waves generated by Lee will reach parts of the Lesser Antilles and they will reach the British and US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Hispaniola and Bermuda this weekend.

On the other hand, the tropical depression number 14, which formed this Thursday in the eastern Atlantic, became Tropical Storm Margot this afternoon and is located 290 miles (465 km) west-northwest of the Cape Verde archipelago, off the coast of West Africa.

Margot has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (55 km/h), is moving west-northwest with a forward speed of 17 miles (28 km), and meteorologists predict that it will strengthen in the coming days and become a hurricane this weekend.

At the moment no coastal watches and alerts have been issued.

In an update released on August 10, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted an “above normal” Atlantic hurricane season, with the formation of between 14 and 21 tropical storms, of which between 6 and 11 would be hurricanes.

Source: Elcomercio