After the Caribbean, Storm Fiona swept across the east coast of Canada this Saturday, plunging hundreds of thousands of homes into darkness. Over 500,000 households are supplied without electricity according to the cumulative figures communicated by several operators. The Canadian weather services have qualified warnings of this storm as multiplied“historical”.
After being downgraded to a hurricane and then a post-tropical storm, Fiona reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence after downing many trees and power poles in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Cell phone service has also been disrupted and many roads have been closed. Fiona could be the one, according to the Canadian Hurricane Center the strongest storm to ever hit Canada. Experts fear it will do more damage than Hurricanes Juan in 2003 and Dorian in 2019.
According to the United States Hurricane Center (NHC), Fiona was still generating gusty winds of 140 km/h when it reached the Gulf of Saint Lawrence around 8 a.m. local time (2 p.m. in France), although “it has since weakened considerably.” she landed.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has postponed his departure to Japan, where he is scheduled to attend the funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to keep abreast of developments, the head of his press office said on Twitter. The country’s two main airlines, Air Canada and WestJet Airlines, had all suspended their regional flights as of Friday night.
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