Lee may have hurricane strength when it makes landfall later today, forecasters say
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Former Hurricane Lee is lashing eastern New England and southeast Canada and is expected to make landfall Saturday, forecasters said. As the storm approached Nova Scotia, it became a post-tropical cyclone but it is expected to be "at or just below hurricane strength" when it makes landfall around the U.S.-Canada border, the National Hurricane Center said Saturday morning.
The storm was a Category 1 hurricane on Friday and at one point last week had Category 5 strength.
CBS News senior weather and climate producer David Parkinson said the Canadian Maritime Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island were going to experience the worst effects from Lee. The hurricane center expected Maine's coast would experience tropical storm conditions and coastal flooding as well.
