Powerful Category 3 Hurricane Fiona approaches Atlantic Canada

By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Category 3 Hurricane Fiona is moving away from Bermuda.

Fiona’s center will then approach Nova Scotia later today, move across Nova Scotia and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Saturday, and then across Labrador and over the Labrador Sea on Sunday, the NHC says.

Forecasters say that parts of Atlantic Canada will experience damaging winds, flooding rain, and storm surge this weekend.

Heavy rainfall will affect Atlantic Canada today.

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Nova Scotia from Hubbards to Brule, Prince Edward Island, Isle-de-la-Madeleine, and Newfoundland from Parson’s Pond to Francois.

Residents can expect prolonged power outages, numerous downed trees, structural damage, washed-out roads, and significant coastal erosion due to battering waves and storm surges, the Weather Channel reports.

Those threats are expected no matter whether Fiona is still a hurricane or if it has transitioned into a non-tropical low by that point, forecasters noted.

Fiona could even be one of the region’s strongest storms in modern records, forecasters noted.

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