#Hurricane #Fiona made landfall in eastern Canada on Saturday after sweeping past Bermuda. The storm brought heavy rainfall with maximum wi...
#Hurricane #Fiona made landfall in eastern Canada on Saturday after sweeping past Bermuda.
The storm brought heavy rainfall with maximum winds of 90 miles (144 kilometers) per hour. Some areas recorded rainfall of up to 4.9 inches (125 millimeters).
The province of Nova Scotia was on high alert, with the Atlantic Canada region preparing for what forecasters warn could become one of the most severe storms in the country's history.
"It is certainly going to be a historic, extreme event for Eastern Canada," Bob Robichaud, a meteorologist for the Canadian Hurricane Center, told the media.
"It's a major hurricane ... All that momentum is trapped within the storm, so it's very difficult for something like that to actually wind down."
Fiona transformed from a hurricane into a post-tropical storm late on Friday.
However, experts said that it could still have hurricane-strength winds and would bring lashing rains and huge waves.
Over 500,000 thousand households were left without power in eastern Canada by early afternoon on Saturday, local energy providers reported.
Authorities in the province sent an emergency alert to phones warning of Fiona's arrival and asked people to stay indoors, avoid the shore, charge devices and have enough supplies for at least 72 hours.
Residents were also warned of wind damage to trees and structures, coastal flooding and possible road washouts.
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