'Increasing confidence' that Lee will become 'very powerful hurricane' by weekend
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Tropical Storm Lee is gaining strength in the Atlantic and likely will develop into an “extremely dangerous” major hurricane with wind speeds of 145 mph by the weekend as it travels west toward the Caribbean and Bahamas, forecasters said Tuesday. It would be the fourth hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic season. The system was 1,315 miles east of the eastern Caribbean late ...