Hundreds of Thousands Without Power as Fiona Brings Severe Winds, Heavy Rain to Atlantic Canada, Eastern Quebec
HALIFAX—Hundreds of thousands of customers are without power across Atlantic Canada as post−tropical storm Fiona makes landfall over Nova Scotia’s eastern Guysborough County.
The Canadian Hurricane Centre said early Saturday that Fiona is expected to pass through Cape Breton Saturday morning, and then reach the Quebec Lower North Shore and Southeastern Labrador by late evening.
The agency says hurricane force wind gusts have already been recorded over eastern mainland Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, Îles−de−la−Madeleine, and southwestern Newfoundland, and tropical storm force winds will spread into eastern Quebec, and southeastern Labrador Saturday.
The storm, characterized as “historic’’ in its scope by meteorologists, is also forecasted to bring between 100 to 200 millimetres of rain across much of Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec, with more than 200 millimetres expected to fall in areas closer to the storm’s path….