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Yes, I have. Just a couple of times though, in New Brunswick, which would be fairly well inland from the worst winds. The south shore of Nova Scotia is directly in line with any hurricane moving north.
They tend to peter out into regular rainstorms with high gusts of wind by the time they reach Canada's East Coast. They drop in strength when they get to the colder water around the mid-Atlantic states and are tropical-strength storms, and weaken still more when they get to New England, if they haven't moved out far into the ocean by then. About half of them move eastward into the ocean when they reach New England, and Canada doesn't get touched by them at all.
On the rare occasions that they still have hurricane-strength winds when they hit Canada, they're generally about a level 1. Not much to get in a panic over. Hurricane Juan in 2003 was still strong when it hit Halifax and it caused quite a bit of damage there, lots of old trees blew over. A fairly strong hurricane hitting the Maritimes would be like a once in a lifetime thing, and a level 4 will never happen in Canada.
The typical hurricane path is to come up through Ohio or Michigan, cross into Ontario near the city of Windsor, and continue on a north easterly course, to wards Toronto, and on towards Ottawa.
East coast cities in Canada are more likely to be hit by ocean storms, moving up the Atlantic coast.
The typical hurricane path is to come up through Ohio or Michigan, cross into Ontario near the city of Windsor, and continue on a north easterly course, to wards Toronto, and on towards Ottawa.
East coast cities in Canada are more likely to be hit by ocean storms, moving up the Atlantic coast.
Jim B.
Toronto,
My impression is that hurricanes that move inland from the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mid West up to Ontario tend to turn into severe rainstorms and tornados? (Never seen a tornado, never want to...)
Hurricane Frieda in 1962 in Vancouver and area….it hit Washington State as well so that is why some call it the Columbus Day Storm, at least in the US, not in Canada of course.
The west coast has gotten its fair share of Pacific cyclones. Most recent really nasty one was in December 2006, there was what Seattle called the Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm and Vancouver called the Stanley Park Storm. That storm slammed us with 100 mph wind gusts and took down thousands of old growth trees on the islands and the mainland (1,000 in Stanley Park alone), knocked out electricity to nearly 2 million residences and businesses, and 18 people died in the aftermath.
The west coast has gotten its fair share of Pacific cyclones. Most recent really nasty one was in December 2006, there was what Seattle called the Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm and Vancouver called the Stanley Park Storm. That storm slammed us with 100 mph wind gusts and took down thousands of old growth trees on the islands and the mainland (1,000 in Stanley Park alone), knocked out electricity to nearly 2 million residences and businesses, and 18 people died in the aftermath.
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