
Hurricane Fiona was the most “extreme Canadian hurricane” in accordance to meteorologist and storm chaserMark Robinson.

Robinson has chased 24 hurricanes in his vocation, with Fiona remaining his latest. Speaking to CTV News Channel from Halifax, N.S., he defined what the storm seemed like from the floor.

“Some of the winds that we bought had been possibly up all-around 100 to 150 kilometres an hour,” Robinson reported. “Intensive problems to the town of Louisbourg (N.S.)…The sheer amount of money of power blow down into the full area was just one of the most impressive elements of the storm, just viewing how a great deal injury was all across Nova Scotia.”




On a windswept patch of land overlooking the ocean in Louisbourg, an previous cemetery watches the waves. #Fionahurricane pic.twitter.com/dqAwdgwWyD
— Mark Robinson (@StormhunterTWN) September 25, 2022


This storm reminded Robinson of a hurricane in the United States mainly because of how lengthy it stayed. According to him, most Canadian hurricanes shift throughout immediately, but not Fiona.

“This a single strike and just stuck about for a really lengthy time,” he reported. “Driving those people winds and that surge, just carrying out so a great deal destruction across the entire Maritimes. It is really just so unfortunate to see.”

As weather change persists, Robinson thinks Canada will see more major storms like Fiona.

“We may well see more powerful storms in the potential, and that’s a little something, sad to say, may well grow to be extra typical,” he said.

The Canadian Armed Forces was deployed to guide Atlantic Canada in recovering from the storm. Fiona has still left thousands of people with out electrical power and compelled municipalities to declare neighborhood states of unexpected emergency.
