From The Canadian Hurricane Centre:
Nova Scotia:
- Annapolis County
- Antigonish County
- Colchester County – Cobequid Bay
- Colchester County – Truro and south
- Colchester County North
- Cumberland County – Minas Shore
- Cumberland County North and Cobequid Pass
- Guysborough County
- Halifax County – east of Porters Lake
- Halifax Metro and Halifax County West
- Hants County
- Inverness County – Mabou and north
- Inverness County – south of Mabou
- Kings County
- Lunenburg County
- Pictou County
- Queens County
- Richmond County
- Sydney Metro and Cape Breton County
- Victoria County
Hurricane Fiona expected to impact Atlantic Canada starting Friday, and continuing into the weekend.
This storm is shaping up to be a potentially severe event for Atlantic Canada. Numerous weather models are quite consistent in their prediction of what we call a deep hybrid low pressure system, possessing both tropical and intense winter storm-type properties (but with very heavy rainfall and severe winds).
Currently the range of uncertainty with regard to the centre of the low when it approaches late Friday or Saturday is approximately a 600 to 700 kilometre wide zone (“cone of uncertainty”) centered over Cape Breton with a broad coverage of hurricane-force winds including over land. This is the most likely scenario as we see it now, regardless of meteorological classification of ‘Hurricane’, or ‘Post-Tropical Storm’ Fiona at that time.
Since we expect the storm to become very large, the impacts will be multi-provincial. Specifics in terms of winds, rainfall, waves and storm surge will be described in increasing detail here beginning this afternoon.
Again, this storm certainly has the potential to be quite severe – we suggest to check forecast updates at least daily for important information regarding the trend in our analysis of what to expect.