Hurricane Lee crossed the North Atlantic towards the New England region, in the northeastern United States (USA) and eastern Canada this Friday (15), threatening to cause rain torrential rains, strong winds and a storm with risk of death for the region at the weekend.

Lee is expected to weaken into a strong tropical storm before hitting southwest Nova Scotia, Canada, on Saturday afternoon, the Canadian Hurricane Center said.

Still, the storm could dump up to 100 millimeters of rain and produce winds of up to 97 kilometers per hour (km/h) in some places, prompting U.S. and Canadian authorities to advise people to prepare for possible floods. and power outages.

Tropical storm conditions were expected across southeastern New England on Friday evening, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, which issued a tropical storm watch for hundreds of miles of coastline, from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, affecting approximately 9 million people.

“Please plan ahead to stay home if possible on Saturday and check in with your loved ones and neighbors,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said in a statement to the city of 650,000. .

Lee has been causing a major hurricane over the Atlantic for more than a week, briefly threatening Bermuda but harmless to people on land.

On Friday afternoon, sustained winds were blowing at around 130 km/h. Lee is expected to become a very large and dangerous storm as it hits eastern New England and the Atlantic coast of Canada,” the U.S. National Weather Service said.

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