While the center of the storm will likely stay east of the U.S. and move into the Canadian Maritimes, Lee's massive wind field is hundreds of miles across and will not spare the New England coast from its wrath.
The National Hurricane Center dropped the Hurricane Watch for Downeast Maine while Canada extended the Hurricane Watch eastward to Ecum Secum. Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for much of the New England Coast, spreading from the Massachusetts/Rhode Island border north into Canada, covering much of the inland areas of central and eastern Maine.
At last report, the hurricane was less than 500 miles south-southwest of Nova Scotia or about 290 miles southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.The current forecast has Lee making landfall likely along the western shores of Nova Scotia or perhaps the extreme southwestern corner of New Brunswick, but Lee's large size means the exact landfall location will only minimally affect the expected impacts.said.