Stormchaser video taken inside the devastating eye of Hurricane Lee shows the powerful storm as it produced flashes of light and launched 165 mph winds earlier this week.
The Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron — aka “Hurricane Hunters” — flew out of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, Thursday was right in the eye of the beast as it accelerated from a Category 1 to a Category 5 hurricane.
It was downgraded back to a Category 3 storm early Saturday but is expected to rebound by the weekend.
But with millions of people on the East Coast watching the massive storm creep northwest, forecasters said it was too early to know if or where Lee would make landfall.
“It will eventually start to re-strengthen to a Category 4 storm based on the Hurricane Center’s current forecast,” Fox Weather meteorologist Christopher Tate told The Post.
But there is good news, Tate said. “That strength back to Category 4 will last relatively because as it starts to turn north, it will start to weaken as it encounters cooler waters.”
Hurricane Lee is expected to return to strength by the weekend, forecasters say.Twitter/@53rdWRS
The storm is expected to move north over the weekend and early next week. Its path and East Coast impact remain uncertain.Twitter/@53rdWRS
The storm was in the Caribbean early Saturday, heading north and west at about 12 miles per hour.
It is expected to begin affecting Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, and Bermuda on Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The large and volatile storm is plowing through the Atlantic and is expected to create rough waves in the New York/New Jersey area for at least the next week.
The East Coast can expect strong rip currents, rough waves and beach erosion from storms. Twitter/@53rdWRS
One reason it is difficult to predict when or if it will hit the coast is that it is expected to slow down as it hits cooler water.
Many questions about the storm’s path remain unanswered as well, although it is not currently expected to make landfall in the US
Tate said, “One thing we know for sure, any time you have a hurricane of this strength, you’re going to see strong currents, higher waves, beach erosion — probably almost everywhere on the East Coast, especially on north of about Charleston, South Carolina clears up to Maritime Canada.”
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