Lee is no longer officially a hurricane but will bring hurricane winds and all the other effects to Nova Scotia today.

The National Hurricane Center said Lee had transitioned from a tropical system into a non-tropical one on Saturday morning but still had hurricane-force winds of 80 mph. Even though it’s not a tropical system any longer, the hurricane center said it will continue issuing advisories on it.

Lee will make landfall around midday in Nova Scotia but is a huge storm and will spread wind and rain far from its landfall point — including into part of New England, where tropical storm warnings continued.

As of 4 a.m. CDT Saturday, the center of Post-Tropical Storm Lee was located about 220 miles south-southeast of Eastport, Maine, and was moving north at 25 mph.

Lee had 80 mph winds, equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane. The hurricane center said Lee is expected to be at or just below hurricane strength when it reaches Nova Scotia later today. It will weaken tonight and Sunday as it tracks across Atlantic Canada.

Waves from Lee continue to cause rough seas and potentially deadly rip currents up and down the Eastern Seaboard and Atlantic Canada.

Lee could bring 1 to 4 inches of rain to parts of eastern New England, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

A storm surge of 1 to 3 feet will be possible from Rhode Island northward to the U.S./Canada border.

Hurricane watches continue for New Brunswick from the U.S./Canada border to Point Lepreau, including Grand Manan Island and in Nova Scotia from Digby to Ecum Secum.

Tropical storm warnings continue from Westport Mass., northward to the U.S./Canada border; Martha’s Vineyard; Nantucket; New Brunswick from the U.S./Canada border to Fort Lawrence, including Grand Manan Island; New Brunswick from Shediac to Tidnish and Nova Scotia from Fort Lawrence to Point Tupper.

A tropical storm watch is in effect for Prince Edward Island, the Magdalen Islands, New Brunswick from Belledune to Shediac, Nova Scotia from Tidnish to Aulds Cove and Nova Scotia from Aulds Cove to Meat Cove to Point Tupper.

ELSEWHERE IN THE ATLANTIC

There could be a new tropical storm to watch this weekend. The hurricane center continued to track Tropical Depression 15, which is expected to become Tropical Storm Nigel as soon as today and a hurricane next week.

The system was far away in the central Atlantic and no immediate threat to land. The forecast track keeps it north of the Leeward Islands and east of Bermuda into next week.

Forecasters also continued to watch Tropical Storm Margot in the central Atlantic. Margot had 60 mph winds on Saturday and was expected to stay out at sea.

The hurricane center will also been watching for another tropical wave to move off the coast of Africa next week that has the potential to develop.