![]() This year features an El Niño pattern, which arrived in June. ( A record 30 named storms formed in 2020.) There were 14 named storms last year, after two extremely busy Atlantic hurricane seasons in which forecasters ran out of names and had to resort to backup lists. 10, NOAA officials revised their estimate upward, to 14 to 21 storms. In late May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that there would be 12 to 17 named storms this year, a “near-normal” amount. Lee is the 12th named storm to form in the Atlantic in 2023. Tropical-storm-force winds, with sustained speeds of at least 39 miles per hour, typically arrive as weather conditions begin to deteriorate, and experts say their estimated arrival time is a good deadline for completing storm preparations and evacuating if asked to do so. Forecasters have warned that Lee’s damaging winds extended hundreds of miles from the center, so the exact point of landfall may be less relevant than it would be for a typical storm. Lee’s ultimate path was looking more certain, with landfall likely somewhere between Bar Harbor, Maine and Halifax, Nova Scotia Saturday afternoon or evening. ![]() Lee was a Category 1 hurricane in the North Atlantic Ocean with sustained wind speeds of 80 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. Hurricane watches had been issued for parts of Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia as well. Coastal tropical storm warnings were in place from Massachusetts to Maine and for southern New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on Friday as Hurricane Lee approached.
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