Hurricane Lee was about 290 miles southeast of Nantucket at 5pm ET on Friday, with storm-force winds spanning 345 miles. Storm surge warnings were in place along Long Island and New England.
The storm is forecast to brush the New England coast before making landfall later today in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, which will see the brunt of it.
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