Nova Scotians asked to keep eye on forecast as Lee’s track remains unclear

CITYnews halifax \ By Mark Hodgins

It’s still too early to know what if any impact Hurricane Lee will have on the Maritimes, according to a Canadian Hurricane Centre (CHC) meteorologist.

Anxiety has been building in Nova Scotia, with several weather models predicting Lee to impact the province as early as this coming weekend.

But the CHC’s Ian Hubbard said no one knows for sure where the storm will go just yet.

“It could go anywhere from New England or just past to the east of Newfoundland at this point,” Hubbard told CityNews on Monday afternoon. “That’s what we’re seeing from the models and ensembles that we use. As we get closer to the event arriving, that will narrow down and we’ll see where it’s going to go.”

Hubbard expects that by Wednesday it should be clearer whether Nova Scotia will see a direct impact. He added information statements for impacts on Canadian waters may be issued as early as later in the day Monday.

“By mid-week, maybe another two days, we’ll start to see (where the storm will go). There will still be uncertainty with that being three or four days out, but it’ll start to narrow down,” Hubbard explained.

It’s been a challenging summer already for Nova Scotia, with wildfires and deadly flooding impacting the province. It’s also nearly been one year since Fiona ravaged Atlantic Canada as one of the most intense cyclones on record for Canada.