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Post by Joe on Aug 20, 2009 13:36:57 GMT -5
Parts of the Maritimes can expect winds over 120 kph and torrential rains on Sunday from Hurricane Bill. Current forecasts show the storm's path moving across eastern Nova Scotia during the day Sunday then over Newfoundland on Monday morning, where Bill will weaken into a tropical storm. Residents and vacationers are urged to monitor local forecasts for updated weather advisories. Environment Canada's Hurricane Centre website www.ec.gc.ca/ouragans-hurricanes/default.asp?lang=En&n=DA74FE64-1U.S. National Hurricane Center www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml?
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Post by Joe on Aug 22, 2009 18:33:02 GMT -5
www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/hurricane/statements_e.html Hurricane Bill information statement issued by the Canadian Hurricane Centre of Environment Canada at 3.00 PM ADT Saturday 22 August 2009.Tropical storm warnings are in effect for Atlantic coastal Nova Scotia with wind speeds of 65 km/h with gusts to 90. Tropical storm warnings have been extended to include eastern mainland Nova Scotia and Southern Cape Breton with wind speeds of 65 km/h with gusts to 90. Hurricane watches are continued for eastern mainland Nova Scotia and Southern Cape Breton with potential wind speeds of 120 km/h with gusts to 140. Tropical storm watches have been issued for the remainder of Nova Scotia, Eastern Prince Edward Island and the southern half of Newfoundland with potential wind speeds of 70 km/h with gusts to 100. On Sunday the centre of hurricane Bill is expected to pass just south of Nova Scotia giving rainfall amounts of 75 to 100 mm over Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland except for Nova Scotia where local amounts up to 150 mm are possible. As a result, local flooding can be expected in flood-prone areas.
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Post by Joe on Aug 24, 2009 0:15:52 GMT -5
From today's Cape Breton Post...a portion of the story Hurricane Bill blows by BY ERIN POTTIE & GREG MACVICAR Hurricane Bill strafed Cape Breton with high winds, heavy rain and scattered power outages Sunday, but it appeared as if the island escaped the widespread damage often associated with Category 1 hurricanes. “Bill tracked just south of Cape Breton in the earlier evening hours,” Environment Canada meteorologist Bob Robichaud said from Halifax around 9 p.m. Sunday. “The storm has moved away. There was some very strong winds but they kind of stayed just offshore and didn’t come on to the coast as much as they could have.” Robichaud said the wind peaked at around 70 kilometres per hour in Sydney, where about 53 millimetres of rain had fallen as of 9 p.m. Ingonish Beach experienced the highest rainfall in Cape Breton with about 66 millimetres. “We did see some coastal erosion down on the Atlantic coast of mainland Nova Scotia,” said Robichaud, adding that the same phenomenon may be evident in Cape Breton this morning. read the complete story www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=280424&sc=145From the U.S. National Hurricane Center... ...BILL APPROACHING SOUTHEASTERN NEWFOUNDLAND... EXPECTED TO BECOME EXTRATROPICAL ON MONDAY... AT 1100 PM AST...0300 UTC...ENVIRONMENT CANADA HAS DISCONTINUED ALL TROPICAL STORM WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR NOVA SCOTIA AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NEWFOUNDLAND FROM BURGEO EASTWARD AROUND THE AVALON PENINSULA AND NORTHWARD TO FOGO ISLAND. A TROPICAL STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM PARSONS POND TO BURGEO ON THE WEST AND SOUTH COAST AND FROM FOGO ISLAND TO HARBOUR DEEP ON THE NORTHEAST COAST. Bill is expected to remain a tropical storm as it nears the northern islands of Scotland late Tuesday.
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