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CNN By Taylor Ward and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee is fluctuating in intensity over the open Atlantic, and the powerful storm could bring life-threatening rip currents and dangerous conditions to beaches up and down the East Coast in the next couple of days. “Dangerous surf and rip currents are expected to begin

By Taylor Ward, Mary Gilbert and Dave Hennen, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee has strengthened back into a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, satellite pictures and data from a hurricane hunter plane indicated Sunday. The powerful storm, which has fluctuated in intensity throughout its time over the open Atlantic, is

CNN By Mary Gilbert and Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee remains hundreds of miles east of the Caribbean late Saturday, yet forecasters say the storm’s effects may have an impact on the US Atlantic seaboard as early as this weekend. Lee was 285 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands as of 11

CNN By Mary Gilbert and Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — Category 3 Hurricane Lee remains hundreds of miles east of the Caribbean on Saturday morning, yet forecasters say the storm’s effects may have an impact on the US Atlantic seaboard as early as this weekend. Lee was just shy of 350 miles east-northeast of the

By Mary Gilbert and Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee remains hundreds of miles east of the Caribbean late Saturday, yet forecasters say the storm’s effects may have an impact on the US Atlantic seaboard as early as this weekend. Lee was 285 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands as of 11 p.m.

CNN By Mary Gilbert and Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee maintained major hurricane status Friday evening as the powerful storm’s indirect – yet dangerous – impacts were expected to reach the waters of the East Coast as early as this weekend. The hurricane, now a Category 3 storm that briefly strengthened to a

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee rapidly intensified at a historic pace into a Category 5 storm Thursday night, adding to a spate of extremely intense hurricanes this year and in recent decades which experts say is a symptom of the climate crisis. Lee is now the eighth Category 5 storm in the

CNN By Mary Gilbert and Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee weakened slightly into a Category 4 storm Friday morning, following a day in which the hurricane strengthened at a historic pace into a powerful Category 5 rarely seen in the Atlantic Ocean. The hurricane is packing destructive maximum sustained winds of 155 mph

By Mary Gilbert and Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Lee maintained major hurricane status Friday evening as the powerful storm’s indirect – yet dangerous – impacts were expected to reach the waters of the East Coast as early as this weekend. The hurricane, now a Category 3 storm that briefly strengthened to a rare

CNN By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Hurricane Lee has strengthened into a major Category 4 storm with maximum sustained wind speeds of 130 mph, according to the 5 p.m. EDT advisory from the National Hurricane Center. “Additional strengthening is expected tonight. Fluctuations in intensity are expected after that, but Lee is forecast to

By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Hurricane Lee has strengthened into a major Category 5 storm, packing maximum sustained wind speeds of 160 mph as it spins over the Atlantic well east of the Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said in an 11 p.m. ET advisory Thursday. Lee, which was a Category 1 storm

CNN By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Hurricane Lee is expected to rapidly intensify in the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and will likely become a major storm by early Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Category 1 storm, packing maximum sustained winds of 80 mph as of early

By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Hurricane Lee has strengthened into a major Category 4 storm with maximum sustained wind speeds of 130 mph, according to the 5 p.m. EDT advisory from the National Hurricane Center. “Additional strengthening is expected tonight. Fluctuations in intensity are expected after that, but Lee is forecast to remain

CNN By Mary Gilbert and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — Tropical Storm Lee is expected to rapidly intensify into an “extremely dangerous” hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean by this weekend, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday morning, as the season approaches its typical early September peak. Lee could become a hurricane Wednesday then a major

By Mary Gilbert and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — Tropical Storm Lee is expected to rapidly intensify into an “extremely dangerous” hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean by this weekend, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday morning, as the season approaches its typical early September peak. Lee could become a hurricane Wednesday then a major Category

By Aya Elamroussi and Rob Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — Severe thunderstorms bombarded the Phoenix area Thursday night, knocking out power for more than 30,000 homes and businesses in Arizona while threatening flash flooding and dust storm conditions. The northwestern portion of Maricopa County – home to the state’s most populous city of Phoenix – was

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — As many communities along Florida’s west coast face oppressive heat Friday without air conditioning or electricity, crews are racing to restore power to tens of thousands in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia. Idalia inflicted record storm surge and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands after making landfall Wednesday

By Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Idalia caused “significant damage” after it ripped into Florida’s Big Bend with 125 mph winds and record-setting storm surge. But the storm’s evolution before landfall, and lucky timing with the tides, likely prevented an even worse disaster. Forecasts from the National Hurricane Center called for Idalia to rapidly