Hurricane Lee raced past the New England coast to make landfall in Canada Saturday afternoon.
The northeastern United States avoided the worst forecast for Lee’s destruction, which was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone early Saturday, but still brought fearsome winds of 93 miles per hour as it moved north.
“There were some pretty impressive gusts,” Fox Weather meteorologist Cody Braud told The Post. “We got 93 miles an hour off Grand Manan Island, just off the coast of New Brunswick.”
The post-tropical cyclone made its first official landfall on Long Island, Nova Scotia, hitting a thin strip of land with 70 mph winds, Braud said.
The storm is expected to cross the Bay of Fundy towards New Brunswick to make landfall again near the coastal city of St. John.
“Nova Scotia is getting the worst of it right now, and the wind will ease as it heads north,” he said.
As of Saturday afternoon, more than 141,000 homes and businesses were without power in Nova Scotia and more than 26,000 in New Brunswick, according to Poweroutage.us.
Hurricane Lee has been downgraded to a post-tropical storm as it races towards Maritime Canada.AP
Wind gusts were recorded as high as 93 miles per hour in New Brunswick and 83 miles per hour in Maine. AP
Braud said most of Lee’s impact Saturday morning was along the Maine coast, with waves 10 to 20 feet high hitting the shoreline as 83 mph wind gusts were recorded in the far eastern town of Perry.
Flash and coastal flood warnings are also in place in the Pine Tree state.
As of Saturday afternoon, nearly 96,000 homes and businesses in Maine were without power, according to Poweroutage.us, with additional reports of downed trees.
More than 71,000 homes in Maine were without power as of late Saturday morning. AP
Off the coast of Massachusetts, tropical storm-force winds lashed Nantucket and Boston, Braud said, with reports of downed trees hitting several cars in the state but, so far, no significant damage.
Following dire predictions of a devastating hurricane earlier this week, New Englanders are cheekily showing off the minimal damage sustained.
“We will rebuild,” online news outlet Nantucket Current captioned the 6-second clip, aired on X, which featured a porta pot being dropped in a small pool of water in a parking lot amid high winds.
The governors of Maine and Massachusetts have declared states of emergency ahead of the storm.REUTERS
The I-95 corridor is forecast to get a brief reprieve Sunday with “a very nice day,” before a coastal low brings heavy rain late Monday into Tuesday morning, Braud said.
“We get one day off, and then [we’re] faced with weather that has more impact when we start the work week,” he said.
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