Fiona, a Category 4 hurricane, hit Bermuda with heavy rain and winds as it passes the island early Friday following a path that is expected to bring it closer to northeastern Canada in the day like a still powerful meteor.
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S Bermuda authorities opened shelters and closed schools and offices before the hurricane hit. In a tweet, Prime Minister David Burt urged people to “take care of themselves and their families. Let us remember to also check and take care of our elderly, relatives and neighbors.
The The Canada Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch covering large areas of the coast of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. Fiona could reach the region as a “large and powerful post-tropical cyclone with hurricane winds”.s, “said the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).
“It will be a storm that the whole world will remember,” said Bob Robichaud, alarm preparedness meteorologist for the Canadian center.
According to the NHC, Fiona had maximum sustained winds of 215 km / h. (130 mph) Thursday night, it was about 315 km (195 miles) west of Bermuda and moving north-northeast at 33 km / h (21 mph).
Hurricane winds extended up to 185 km (115 miles) from the vortex and tropical storm winds reached 445 km (275 miles).
Currently, Fiona caused at least five deaths: two in Puerto Rico, two in the Dominican Republic and one in the Guadalupe archipelago.
The presence of hurricanes in Canada is unusual, partly because once storms reach colder waters, they lose their main energy source and become extratropical cyclones. But these phenomena can have hurricane force winds, although they have a cold core instead of a warm one. and have no visible eddies. They lose their symmetrical shape and may more closely resemble a comma.
Robichaud explained at a press conference that the models predict “historic” low pressures in the region, which could cause storm surges and rainfall of between 10 and 20 centimeters (4 to 8 inches).
ABefore reaching Bermuda, Fiona caused severe flooding and damage in Puerto Ricoprompting US President Joe Biden on Thursday to say the federal government is ready to help reclaim the territory.
In a briefing with officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in New York, Biden said, “We are committed together.” Hundreds of officials from the agency and other departments are already in Puerto Rico, where Fiona caused an island-wide blackout, she added.
More than 60% of the customers were still without electricity on Thursday, and a third of the homes had no water. Local authorities admitted that they could not provide a date for the full restoration of the service.
Five days after Fiona passed, hundreds of people were still isolated on Friday due to road closures.
With AP information
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