Considered one of the strongest storms ever to slam Canada ripped through its eastern seaboard before devastating Nova Scotia’s coastline Saturday, with gusty winds and heavy rains that left a whole lot of 1000’s of individuals without power.
As former Hurricane Fiona was within the midst of being reclassified as a post-tropical cyclone — a rare weather event for Canada — Florida was bracing for the arrival of Tropical Storm Ian.
Ian was strengthening within the eastern Caribbean Saturday, and forecasters said it might be a Category 3 hurricane by the point it reaches Cuba, then Florida in the approaching days, the Miami Herald reported.
The National Hurricane Center has called for a landfall sometime Wednesday near Sarasota.
Fox Weather meteorologist Greg Diamond said the storm was shifting further west as of Saturday afternoon, adding “it’s becoming increasingly unlikely that Ian will make a landfall in southwest Florida” and that storm will likely move ashore within the Tampa area. He also said “tropical storm conditions are forecast to spread across the west coast of Florida starting Wednesday with landfall Thursday, or perhaps Friday, depending on how far west the storm tracks.”
Irrespective of where Ian hits, heavy rain and winds are expected to swamp the state throughout next week.
Diamond said Ian may eventually bring some rain to Recent York next weekend, nevertheless it isn’t expected to be any serious downpours within the northeast.
Concerns over the tropical storm led NASA officials to forgo its third launch attempt of the Artemis I mega moon rocket, which had been set for Tuesday at Cape Canaveral in Florida, based on CNN. It’s unclear when the rocket will lift off.
Here’s every thing to find out about Hurricane Ian:
Florida officials have urged residents in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties to finish storm preparations by Monday night. The Keys were expected to come to a decision later Saturday whether to call for evacuations.
Ian grew more violent overnight Friday into Saturday, sparking 45 mph winds by Saturday afternoon. It was about 250 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, which was under a tropical storm watch.
Forecasters also said wind shear leftover from Fiona and other unfavorable weather conditions were expected to dissipate over the weekend in Florida, allowing Ian to grow to be more powerful.
In Canada, more than 414,000 Nova Scotia Power customers — about 80% of the province of virtually 1 million — had no power Saturday. One other 82,000 customers within the province of Prince Edward Island were also in the dead of night, while NB Power in Recent Brunswick reported 44,329 were without electricity.
The Canadian Hurricane Centre tweeted that Fiona has the bottom pressure ever recorded for a storm making landfall in Canada. Forecasters said it could be one of essentially the most powerful storms to hit the country.
A state of local emergency has been declared by the mayor and council of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality amid widespread power outages, road closures and damage to homes.
“There are homes which were significantly damaged as a result of downed trees, big old trees falling down and causing significant damage. We’re also seeing houses that their roofs have completely torn off, windows breaking in. There is a big amount of debris within the roadways,” said Amanda McDougall, mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
Due to storm, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided to delay his trip to Japan for the funeral for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Fiona had maximum sustained winds of 90 mph Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said.
Hurricane-force winds prolonged outward as much as 175 miles from the middle and tropical storm-force winds prolonged outward as much as 405 miles, the middle added.
Hurricanes in Canada are somewhat rare, partially because once the storms reach colder waters, they lose their fundamental source of energy. But post-tropical cyclones can have hurricane-strength winds.
“Just an incredibly strong storm because it made landfall. And at the same time as it moves away it is continuous to affect the region for several more hours today,” said Ian Hubbard, meteorologist for the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
“The talk of a historical storm definitely looks prefer it’s shaping as much as be true.”
Fiona has already been linked to no less than five deaths — two in Puerto Rico, two within the Dominican Republic and one within the French island of Guadeloupe.
Considered one of the strongest storms ever to slam Canada ripped through its eastern seaboard before devastating Nova Scotia’s coastline Saturday, with gusty winds and heavy rains that left a whole lot of 1000’s of individuals without power.
As former Hurricane Fiona was within the midst of being reclassified as a post-tropical cyclone — a rare weather event for Canada — Florida was bracing for the arrival of Tropical Storm Ian.
Ian was strengthening within the eastern Caribbean Saturday, and forecasters said it might be a Category 3 hurricane by the point it reaches Cuba, then Florida in the approaching days, the Miami Herald reported.
The National Hurricane Center has called for a landfall sometime Wednesday near Sarasota.
Fox Weather meteorologist Greg Diamond said the storm was shifting further west as of Saturday afternoon, adding “it’s becoming increasingly unlikely that Ian will make a landfall in southwest Florida” and that storm will likely move ashore within the Tampa area. He also said “tropical storm conditions are forecast to spread across the west coast of Florida starting Wednesday with landfall Thursday, or perhaps Friday, depending on how far west the storm tracks.”
Irrespective of where Ian hits, heavy rain and winds are expected to swamp the state throughout next week.
Diamond said Ian may eventually bring some rain to Recent York next weekend, nevertheless it isn’t expected to be any serious downpours within the northeast.
Concerns over the tropical storm led NASA officials to forgo its third launch attempt of the Artemis I mega moon rocket, which had been set for Tuesday at Cape Canaveral in Florida, based on CNN. It’s unclear when the rocket will lift off.
Here’s every thing to find out about Hurricane Ian:
Florida officials have urged residents in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties to finish storm preparations by Monday night. The Keys were expected to come to a decision later Saturday whether to call for evacuations.
Ian grew more violent overnight Friday into Saturday, sparking 45 mph winds by Saturday afternoon. It was about 250 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, which was under a tropical storm watch.
Forecasters also said wind shear leftover from Fiona and other unfavorable weather conditions were expected to dissipate over the weekend in Florida, allowing Ian to grow to be more powerful.
In Canada, more than 414,000 Nova Scotia Power customers — about 80% of the province of virtually 1 million — had no power Saturday. One other 82,000 customers within the province of Prince Edward Island were also in the dead of night, while NB Power in Recent Brunswick reported 44,329 were without electricity.
The Canadian Hurricane Centre tweeted that Fiona has the bottom pressure ever recorded for a storm making landfall in Canada. Forecasters said it could be one of essentially the most powerful storms to hit the country.
A state of local emergency has been declared by the mayor and council of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality amid widespread power outages, road closures and damage to homes.
“There are homes which were significantly damaged as a result of downed trees, big old trees falling down and causing significant damage. We’re also seeing houses that their roofs have completely torn off, windows breaking in. There is a big amount of debris within the roadways,” said Amanda McDougall, mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
Due to storm, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided to delay his trip to Japan for the funeral for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Fiona had maximum sustained winds of 90 mph Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said.
Hurricane-force winds prolonged outward as much as 175 miles from the middle and tropical storm-force winds prolonged outward as much as 405 miles, the middle added.
Hurricanes in Canada are somewhat rare, partially because once the storms reach colder waters, they lose their fundamental source of energy. But post-tropical cyclones can have hurricane-strength winds.
“Just an incredibly strong storm because it made landfall. And at the same time as it moves away it is continuous to affect the region for several more hours today,” said Ian Hubbard, meteorologist for the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
“The talk of a historical storm definitely looks prefer it’s shaping as much as be true.”
Fiona has already been linked to no less than five deaths — two in Puerto Rico, two within the Dominican Republic and one within the French island of Guadeloupe.
