Hurricane Lee recap: Coastal flooding, power outages and more. What we're watching

As of 5 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, Hurricane Lee, now post-tropical cyclone Lee, is moving north off the coast of Cape Cod Massachusetts, bringing possible hurricane conditions to southern New Brunswick and Nova Scotia later today and into tomorrow.

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All tropical weather watches and warnings down for Southern New England

The National Weather Service has cancelled at tropical weather watches and warnings for Southern New England related to Hurricane Lee - now post-tropical cyclone Lee.

According to the NWS, rain should be coming to an end soon across much of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and residents may even see some sun poking through the cloud cover.

By mid-day Saturday, Hurricane Lee largely moved on from Rhode Island

By mid-morning Saturday the storm had drawn a steady stream of sightseers to the shore, but there was little out of the norm to see.

At the Camp Cronin Fishing area in Point Judith, cars crunched along the gravel roadway to look out at a rather unremarkable ocean. A couple of fishermen even ventured down the breakwater at high tide with little unsettling surf to give them pause. Most onlookers were content to take in the view through their car windshields.

At the Ocean Mist pub in Matunuck, the usual Saturday morning crowd of URI college students had taken up their positions on the outside deck, literally over the water as if to catch front rows seats to any water action. But the consensus from surfers down the road at the Deep Hole Fishing Area was that conditions were bigger Friday.

By Saturday the storm had already moved on.

Hurricane Lee impacting flights at Logan

Logan International Airport in Boston: Flight delays and cancellations are stacking up for flights coming into and out of Logan Airport. Saturday Cape Air flights have been canceled. A message on the airport website advises passengers to check with their airlines on the status of their flight become coming to the airport.

Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport: Flights out of T.F. Green appear to be arriving and departing as normal. No delays or cancellations posted on the website.

Surfers rate Hurricane Lee waves in Rhode Island a '5 out of 10'

By 8 a.m. Saturday, three dozen surfers converged on the clean green curls peeling in on Point Judith. Peter Ryan of East Greenwich, usually a bird photographer, came to the lighthouse hillside to capture their rides.

“I was hoping to catch some waves breaking over the wall” on the other side of the lighthouse, he said. “But I walked over there and there wasn’t a wave. I couldn’t believe it."

Surfer Jacob Abraham of Wakefield spent the early morning on the swells east of Point Judith light with dozens of other like-minded wave aficionados.

He rated the waves a 5-6 out of 10 and appreciated their “clean” formations. “Friday it was really messy out here.”

Block Island Ferry cancels high speed ferry Saturday, adjusts traditional ferry schedule

According to the Block Island Ferry website, all high speed ferry departures have been cancelled for Saturday, Sept. 16.

The ferry service also cancelled the 8:15 a.m. traditional ferry departing Block Island and 9 a.m. traditional ferry departing Pt. Judith.

Traditional ferry service will resume from Block Island and Pt. Judith starting at 11 a.m., according to the website.

Top wind gusts so far for Hurricane Lee

Over the last 24 hours, wind gusts around Rhode Island have topped out at about 42mph, according to the National Weather Service Boston.

A wind gust recorded in New Shoreham on Block Island reached 42mph, the highest so far in the state. A gust at the University of Rhode Island measured 40mph, as well as a gust measured at Point Judith.

Wind gusts measured in Little Compton and the Block Island jetty measured 39mph.

Much stronger winds were recorded further east on Cape Cod and the Islands, as well as in Maine. Gusts up to 80 mph were reported on Grand Manan Island, a Canadian island just offshore of Washington County where the Gulf of Maine becomes the Bay of Fundy.

So far, rain has been contained to eastern half of Rhode Island and east of the I-495 corridor.

Is Hurricane Lee causing flight delays at T.F. Green?

As of 8 a.m. Saturday morning, flights into and out of Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport remain largely unaffected by Hurricane Lee.

The flight tracker on the airport's website shows all flights scheduled for the day running on time.

Similarly, there are no current weather-related service alerts for the MBTA commuter rail running from Providence to Boston along the Providence/Stoughton line.

What are conditions like at the beaches in Narragansett? 'Pretty tame'

Beth Elam, of Marblehead, Massachusetts got up early at her aunt’s condo to take a sunrise walk across the green next to The Towers to view the swollen ocean. But only a hint of pink soaked through the gray eastern sky.

On the positive side there was little wind to speak off and only spitting rain.

She and her friend had taken their four children down to Narragansett for the weekend and hoped to attend Saturday’s calamari fest in town. But the event was cancelled due to the storm, she said.

“That was too bad;” the storm turned out “to be pretty tame.” But the kids are having fun anyway. Friday night they walked the breakwater behind Monahan’s Clam Shack and loved “getting splashed by the waves” coming up over the rocks. They thought they might be able to play in the water today but we can’t allow that. The current is pretty strong around here right now.”

Over at the seawall at Narragansett's Town Beach, David “Hard Tail” Taylor hauled a striped bass over the wall at Narragansett Town Beach Saturday minutes after dawn. Fishermen were largely unimpressed with the magnitude of Tropical Storm Lee but the bigger than usual wave action had brought the stripers in close.

Track power outages in Rhode Island from Hurricane Lee

Despite blustery weather along the coast, as of 6:30 a.m. there were no reported power outages in Rhode Island related to Hurricane Lee.

You can track power outages through this map:

Power out? Track outages here: Rhode Island power outage map: See where the power is out as Hurricane Lee nears

Where is Hurricane Lee now and how strong is it?

Per the National Hurricane Center's 5 a.m. forecast discussion, Hurricane Lee "completed its transition to a post-tropical cyclone" overnight, forming into a comma-shaped storm lacking the convection and organization of a tropical storm or hurricane.

However, the NHC notes that Lee remains a "potent" storm, with winds measuring up to 75 mph recorded 110 miles from its center.

Lee is traveling north, outside of the Gulf Stream, at about 25 mph.

Despite this weakening, tropical storm conditions, heavy flooding and dangerous surf as occurring and will continue to occur as Lee passes by coastal New England.

Providence Journal reporter Tom Mooney contributed to this report

This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Hurricane Lee in Rhode Island: Path, location, damage, power outages