Whereas tropical storm warnings stay in impact throughout elements of Canada, officers predict Lee will dissipate within the coming days.
Atlantic storm Lee made landfall at near-hurricane energy Saturday, bringing damaging winds, tough surf and torrential rains to New England within the US and the Maritimes in Canada.
In the meantime, officers withdrew some warnings for the area and predicted the storm would dissipate within the coming days.
The US Nationwide Hurricane Middle mentioned early Sunday that the post-tropical cyclone was in Canada – about 56km (35 miles) west of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and about 362km (225 miles) west of Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland.
The highest sustained wind pace had dropped for a 3rd time in 24 hours to 80km/h (50mph), with some greater gusts anticipated.
“Gradual weakening is forecast throughout the subsequent couple of days, and Lee may dissipate on Tuesday,” the hurricane centre mentioned.
The centre discontinued a tropical storm warning for the coast of Maine within the US late on Saturday and reported the Canadian Hurricane Centre had ended its tropical storm warning for New Brunswick and elements of Prince Edward Island.
However a tropical storm warning remained in impact for elements of Canada’s Nova Scotia, the Magdalen Islands and Prince Edward Island, with robust winds probably resulting in downed timber and energy outages, the centre mentioned.
Storm surges have been anticipated to subside on Sunday after being forecast as as much as 0.91 metres (3 toes) on Saturday alongside coastal areas, the hurricane centre mentioned.
A 51-year-old motorist in Searsport, Maine died Saturday after a big tree limb fell on his automobile on US Freeway 1 throughout excessive winds. The post-tropical cyclone was additionally robust sufficient to trigger energy outages a number of hundred miles from its centre.
On Saturday, 11 % of electrical energy clients in Maine lacked energy, together with 27 % of Nova Scotia, eight % of New Brunswick and three % of Prince Edward Island.
In Maine, a whale watch vessel broke freed from its mooring and crashed ashore on Saturday. Lee additionally flooded coastal roads in Nova Scotia and took ferries out of service whereas fanning nervousness in a area nonetheless reeling from wildfires and extreme flooding this summer time. The province’s largest airport, Halifax Stanfield Worldwide, cancelled all flights.
“Individuals are exhausted,” mentioned Pam Lovelace, a councillor in Halifax. “It’s a lot in such a small time interval.”
All the area has skilled an particularly moist summer time, rating second within the variety of wet days in Portland, Maine — and Lee’s excessive winds toppled timber confused by the rain-soaked floor in Maine, probably the most closely wooded state within the US.
Lee shared some traits with 2012’s Superstorm Sandy. Each storms have been once-strong hurricanes that grew to become post-tropical cyclones — cyclonic storms which have misplaced most of their tropical traits — earlier than landfall.
Lee was not anticipated to be practically as damaging as Sandy, which brought about billions of {dollars} in harm and was blamed for dozens of deaths in New York and New Jersey within the US.
Lee additionally was not wherever close to as extreme because the remnants of Hurricane Fiona, which a yr in the past washed homes into the ocean in jap Canada, knocked out energy to most of two provinces and swept a lady into the ocean, Canadian meteorologist Jill Maepea mentioned.
