Hurricane Fiona has made landfall in Canada as a post-tropical cyclone. Also, Tropical Storm Ian tracks toward Florida. The latest on the Atlantic storms.
Associated Press, CNN HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Fiona knocked out power to more than 500,000 customers in Atlantic Canada Saturday, damaging homes with strong winds and rain as it made landfall as a big, powerful post-tropical cyclone.
People are also reading… Meanwhile, the ninth named tropical storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season has formed across the central Caribbean Sea, and forecasts show Florida may soon be impacted by its first major hurricane since 2018. Tropical Storm Ian was located 385 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, as of Friday evening and is moving west-northwest at 12 mph.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio "It's going to a bad one," said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who decided to delay his trip to Japan for the funeral for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Hurricanes in Canada are somewhat rare, in part because once the storms reach colder waters, they lose their main source of energy. But post-tropical cyclones still can have hurricane-strength winds, although they have a cold core and no visible eye. They also often lose their symmetric form and more resemble a comma.
He added that Fiona is about the same size as post-tropical storm Dorian in 2019."But it is stronger than Dorian was," he said."It's certainly going to be an historic, extreme event for eastern Canada."
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