00:00 The entire east coast is under a major rip current threat from Hurricane Lee,
00:04 with Florida beaches already on high alert. As the week goes on, beachgoers in places like the
00:08 outer banks of North Carolina will need to watch out for life-threatening rip currents as well.
00:13 We recently spoke to AccuWeather regional expert Bob Smirbeck on how to spot a rip current,
00:19 which can hide behind the waves and trick beachgoers.
00:22 You just start watching the waves, the way they're breaking. You see the water all churned up,
00:27 where the waves are breaking, coming up onto the beach. But then there's this nice calm area
00:31 in between. The water's a little darker, it's a little calmer. You think, "Oh, that's a good
00:36 space to go in. Water's nice." But that could be where the rip current is. That's one of the
00:40 signatures of a rip current, is a calmer, darker area of water between churning waves coming up on
00:46 the beaches. Smirbeck says if you're trapped in a rip current, stay calm, don't panic, and swim
00:53 parallel to the shoreline to get out of the rip current. And always try to swim near a lifeguard
00:59 as well. That'll keep you even safer. To break the grip of the rip, yes, you swim parallel to
01:04 the shoreline. Just remember that. Okay, folks, we're going to be taking a closer look right now
01:08 at the RealView Enhanced GOES 16. And we want to mention that we've been talking about Hurricane
01:14 Lee. As it moves north, it's going to make its way up toward New England this weekend. And as it does
01:20 so, it's going to, the winds around its center are going to decrease a bit. Right now, they're
01:25 115 miles an hour. When it gets up near New England, they'll probably be closer to 65, 75
01:30 miles an hour. But the wind field is going to expand. And that's a little bit troublesome.
01:36 Because right now, the wind field, 500 miles across here, folks, this storm, we have winds of
01:45 tropical storm force. So if you look at it like the radius, it goes from the center of the storm
01:51 outwards 250 miles. That's how far out from the center of the storm we're getting tropical storm
01:57 winds, okay, 40 to 60 mile an hour gusts. We are expecting that in New England here, folks,
02:03 in eastern New England especially, moving forward. In places like Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
02:08 which is where this EarthKam is taking a live shot, right on that very small New
02:14 England, New Hampshire coastline of what is it, like 20 miles or something. But yes, it is
02:19 beautiful. This is a snapshot of Saturday morning. Okay, we're going to fast forward to the weekend
02:24 to see what impacts you're going to be expecting here, especially in eastern New England.
02:28 Saturday morning, we're expecting Lee to be either a category one hurricane, a tropical storm. It's
02:34 really immaterial what the designation is at that point. But it will be a powerful tropical cyclone
02:39 making its way probably a couple hundred miles east of Cape Cod, although it could be closer.
02:44 So we are expecting very windy conditions here, folks, this Saturday for much of the day. As a
02:50 matter of fact, if you look at the forecast for the college football game, BC against Florida State,
02:55 BC looking to play a spoiler in this one. This is on Saturday in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts,
03:00 just outside of Boston. Look at these winds, folks. The winds are going to be sustained at
03:05 20 to 25 miles an hour. The gusts will be higher and it will be raining. That is going to be very
03:11 interesting to watch that football game on Saturday as BC takes on Florida State. This is
03:17 Lee's eye path once again here, folks. And remember that cone there of uncertainty, if you will, as you
03:23 get further into time, the Saturday-Sunday time frame, it gets wider. So there is still a chance
03:28 for a landfall in Maine, especially, or even Cape Cod. So keep it in mind, folks, if you live in
03:34 those areas of eastern New England, especially, your threats as far as a direct impact are higher
03:40 than others.
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