Storyline · concluded · The storm ledger
Lee
Every dispatch filed on Lee, in order, so you can watch the call sharpen from first mention to the last word.
8Dispatches
8Days · SEP 6–SEP 13
I-26Tropics
The route · every exit
- Exit 1 · SEP 6 · Subscribers Hurricane Lee rapidly intensifying
- Exit 2 · SEP 7 Hurricane Lee forecast to become Category 5 on Friday
- Exit 3 · SEP 8 · Subscribers Powerful Hurricane Lee will turn due north, eventually
- Exit 4 · SEP 10 Hurricane Lee rapidly weakened temporarily
- Exit 5 · SEP 11 · Subscribers Hurricane Lee winds and waves to impact Northeast US this weekend
- Exit 6 · SEP 11 · Subscribers Landfall on Sunday likely in Nova Scotia
- Exit 7 · SEP 12 · Subscribers Hurricane Lee to transition post-tropical this weekend prior to landfall
- Exit 8 · SEP 13 Hurricane Lee to lash coastal New England on Saturday
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Why I-26?
Tropical stories ride Interstate 26, after the 26 °C sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development.
26 °C
The sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development; the shield number of this road.
Invest
An area the Hurricane Center is investigating, numbered 90–99 with a basin letter, before it has a name.
ACE
Accumulated Cyclone Energy: a season's wind, squared and summed every six hours. Climatology sets the scale.