The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Lee is forecast to strengthen rapidly into an 'extremely dangerous' major hurricane this weekend as it nears the Lesser Antilles and Caribbean.
earlier in the day. The reason for the higher wind speed is the above-average water temperatures in the area of the Atlantic where the storm is set to be."The system should be moving over record-warm waters ... east of the Lesser Antilles.
" Forecasters say those kinds of water temperatures are what they typically see in the Gulf of Mexico — not in the much cooler ocean.strengthening this quickly is unusualVast majority of tracks for eventual Major Hurricane Lee are clustered into a "recurve" scenario well away from the U.S. East Coast. However, there are indeed some outliers that have a mind of their own.
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