What Was The Name Of The Storm That Recently Lashed The Canadian Province Of Nova Scotia With Wind And Rain After It Made Landfall In The U.s. State Of Maine? (2023)

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What Was The Name Of The Storm That Recently Lashed The Canadian Province Of Nova Scotia With Wind And Rain After It Made Landfall In The U.s. State Of Maine? ›

BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Atlantic storm Lee — which made landfall at near-hurricane strength, bringing destructive winds and torrential rains to New England and Maritime Canada — kept weakening Sunday after officials withdrew warnings and predicted the storm would disappear early this week.

Lee made landfall on Long Island, Nova Scotia, late Saturday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said. Maximum sustained winds on Sunday morning were near 45 m.p.h. with higher gusts, which could still cause downed trees and power outages.

A map showing the landfall location of Hurricane Lee. Long Island, Nova Scotia. There was no major infrastructure damage reported, and no reports of missing people, injuries or deaths.

LOCKEPORT, Nova Scotia, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Lee made landfall as a post-tropical cyclone packing hurricane-force winds in a far western part of Canada's Nova Scotia province on Saturday, flooding roads, downing trees and cutting out power for tens of thousands of people along the North Atlantic coast.

BAR HARBOR, Maine — Atlantic storm Lee made landfall at near-hurricane strength Saturday, bringing destructive winds, rough surf and torrential rains to New England and Maritime Canada. But officials withdrew some warnings for the region and predicted the storm would disappear early this week.

Bruce Heyman, a former U.S. ambassador to Canada, said that while Nova Scotia was lucky this time, weather disasters will become only more common with climate change. A homeless encampment in downtown Halifax saw tents destroyed by the wind and rain from Hurricane Lee in September 2023.

Despite its relatively low maximum winds, the Nova Scotia Cyclone was a deadly storm. Also known as "The Lord's Day Gale" and "The Great Nova Scotia Hurricane of 1873," it destroyed 1200 boats and 900 buildings in Nova Scotia, and killed at least 223 people, mostly sailors who were lost at sea.

In Nova Scotia, severe and unpredictable weather such as flooding, blizzards and hurricanes can occur. In addition to natural disasters there are other types of risks, such as power outages, industrial accidents and major transportation accidents.

Around 14,000 customers in Nova Scotia lost power during the height of the storm. An F0 tornado was also reported in Mont-Laurier, Quebec on October 31 with minimal damage, one of the latest tornadoes in the year ever recorded in Canada and one of very few to be linked to a tropical cyclone (or the remnants thereof).

The Hurricanes were founded as members of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBLC) to replace the Halifax Rainmen, who filed for bankruptcy in July 2015 ultimately leading to the club folding. In 2021, the organization left the NBLC.

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The Galveston Hurricane was the deadliest weather disaster in U.S. history, according to NOAA. The storm system formed over the Atlantic, and traveled to the Gulf of Mexico, while picking up strength and speed. It hit landfall in Texas, just south of Galveston.

The Great Galveston Hurricane decimated the island city on the Gulf Coast of Texas on Sept. 8, 1900. This hurricane is known as the deadliest weather disaster in United States history, killing at least 8,000 people, with some estimates as high as 12,000 people.

More people were killed in this single storm than the total of those killed in at least the next two deadliest tropical cyclones that have struck the United States since. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 remains the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history.

The Galveston Hurricane of August 1900 was the deadliest hurricane in United States history, according to NOAA, causing tremendous destruction and loss of life. An estimated 8,000 to 12,000 people died in the storm, making it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history.

The centre of post-tropical storm Lee made landfall at 5 p.m. Saturday on Long Island — an island in Digby County on the western coast of Nova Scotia.

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On Monday, Sep. 29, 2003, Hurricane Juan hit Nova Scotia as a Category 2. Juan's sustained wind speeds reached 165 km/h. The storm also passed over P.E.I. as a Category 1 storm.