Hurricane Fiona passes Bermuda and heads to Canada after devastating Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic

Hurricane Fiona is now headed towards jap Canada after wrecking havoc on Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic this week (Footage: AP/Reuters)

After every week of bringing mass destruction to a number of Caribbean islands, Hurricane Fiona is headed towards jap Canada, the place it's anticipated to develop into a ‘landmark climate occasion.’

The lethal storm first handed Bermuda on Thursday earlier than heading northeast towards Canada. These within the storm’s path have been informed to be on excessive alert after Fiona wrecked havoc on Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos and different elements of the Caribbean this previous week.

The Canadian Hurricane Heart issued a hurricane warning for the coastal parts of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.

Fiona can be a traditionally extreme storm for jap Canada, bringing harmful flooding, hurricane-force winds and storm surges starting Saturday, in accordance with AccuWeather meteorologists.

A person factors to a house that was collapsed by Hurricane Fiona at Villa Esperanza in Salinas, Puerto Rico (Image: AP)

Satellite tv for pc view as Hurricane Fiona strikes up the USA Atlantic coast (Image: AP)

The storm ‘is shaping as much as be a extreme occasion for Atlantic Canada and jap Quebec,’ officers with the Canadian Hurricane Heart stated Thursday. Hurricanes in Canada are extraordinarily uncommon, as storms typically lose momentum as soon as they hit colder waters.

Late Thursday, Fiona sustained winds as sturdy as 125 mph (205 kph) and was headed northeast at 25 mph (41 kph).

By Friday, the storm had transitioned right down to a Class 3 storm, although its possible it would not be categorized as a hurricane by the point it makes landfall in Nova Scotia this weekend.

With the storm comes the potential for huge, 50-foot-tall waves off the coast, forecasters predict. Officers are also warning of the likelihood that hurricane power winds will deliver downed timber and widespread energy outages to the area.

View of a broken bridge after Hurricane Fiona hit Villa Esperanza in Salinas, Puerto Rico (Image: AP)

A person walks by means of particles within the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico (Image: Reuters)

Fiona has left huge injury in its path, and has taken the lives of no less than eight individuals. A lot of Puerto Rico stays with out electrical energy, and many individuals nonetheless don’t have working water because the storm hit the island on Sunday.

Some elements of Puerto Rico obtained over 30 inches of rain through the storm, whereas within the Dominican Republic the large quantity of flooding fully destroyed 1000's of houses. There, tons of of 1000's of persons are nonetheless with out electrical energy and working water.

As Fiona strikes away from the Caribbean, one other tropical storm has began to kind over the central Caribbean Sea, in accordance with the Nationwide Hurricane Heart.

The storm, which can be named Hermine, is predicted to deliver heavy rain to Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, northern Venezuela and northern Colombia, and will head towards Cuba and enter the Gulf of Mexico early subsequent week.

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