Hurricane Kyle Makes Landfall In Nova Scotia
September 28, 2008, Matthew Good A quick word to the folks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, (and surrounding areas) who were hit by Hurricane Kyle this evening – I hope everyone’s okay and that the damage is minimal.
Thankfully the category 1 hurricane has now been downgraded to a tropical storm. That said; the Maritimes is still expected to get pounded by rain over the next few days, with reports that in some places 100 millimeters could fall in a just a few hours.
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I hope that today finds you all well
Best wishes from Boston. All we got was a little rain. Missed it. I’m curious, how often does a hurricane hit the Maritimes? I have an online guitar friend up in Newfoundland and he hasn’t checked into the Fender Forum yet. I’m a little worried; but he’s a lineman, and I bet he’s at work gearing up.
In an aside, my granddad and his track crew, were some of the first Americans to arrive in Halifax after the explosion. Boston and Maine rail road boys. Tough guys in those days. He fell in love with the Maritimes. (me too.)
From what I’ve read this evening Robert, they’re very rare. The CBC has some history of them in the region as a part of their coverage of the storm. CBC.ca
Speaking from Newfoundland, that’s right, hurricanes are very rare here. Usually by the time it’s reached us it’s been downgraded to a tropical storm or less. Still can be pretty messy though.
where are you, Brent. My friend, John Chaulk, looks out his windows to Europe!
http://www.fenderforum.com/userphotos/index.html?recid=20137
[quote comment="66834"]From what I’ve read this evening Robert, they’re very rare. The CBC has some history of them in the region as a part of their coverage of the storm. CBC.ca[/quote]
I should go read that. It seems like we get a hurricane every year, but it really is just the way we think of it as a hurricane until it actually hits, and isn’t as extreme.
I loved listening to the wind last night, but it’s hard to enjoy something when you know it might be knocking a tree on someone’s house.
I’m in western NB and at 9am Monday morning the sky is clearing. It rained more on Saturday and early Sunday than it did when the satellite images showed it covering NB. The wind picked up some last night too.
We were on the heavy rainfall side of the storm, so we were expecting some flooding. I don’t think we got much, but I haven’t checked any news sites yet. My neighbour’s low-lying yard looks okay though.
I was kind of surprised how warm it was. We had to turn the pellet stove off.
The most recent hurricane to have hit us (NS) was category 2 hurricane Juan in 2003.
In February 2004, we were hit with a winter storm that dumped up to 100cm of snow in some places. It was nicknamed “White Juan” given the devastation it left within half a year of the original Juan.
Several lives were claimed in both storms.
Even though the news is still reporting more rain coming, it looks like it’s mostly passed.
See satellite images here.
I have family in Digby (Close to Yarmouth) and from what I’m hearing, damage is minimal. Thankfully. Its interesting that this happened on the five year anniversary of Hurricane Juan.
Hurricane’s are so rare here that I remember on the night Juan came… my buddy and I saw the weather forecast and were like “There’s no way a hurricane will hit us. Let’s go to the theatre and watch a movie”…. We didn’t get to finish our movie as the power was blown out and the drive home was interesting dodging branches and tress which were appearing in the road!
in 30 years of living in the halifax area, i only remember ever being afraid of the weather once, and that was when hurricane juan hit. i cowered on the floor next to my bed, hoping the tree next to my window wouldn’t come crashing through the wall. i could gladly go the rest of my life without experiencing weather like that again, and i feel for people that live in places like the carribean who get pummeled on a regular basis by hurricanes.
and to the guy worried about his friend in newfoundland: he wouldn’t be getting the weather till today, if there’s anything left to it. newfoundland gets anything coming up the coast in about the time it takes weather to get from boston to us:)
Here in Fredericton, NB, we were also affected by Kyle. We had a few hours of semi high winds and tons of rain…im not exactly sure how much rain fell, however, we got dumped on with rain from another system on both Friday and Saturday, so, with all the rain down that accompanied kyle, we’ve got enough water down to do us the month of October haha (im told we got about 125 mm during the weekend)
Luckily, noone here lost power. Ive been told people in Moncton, Sackville, and Saint John lost power and there were a few down trees, but, overall New Brunswick made out well all things considered. Im interested to see how those in Yarmouth and all of Nova Scotia made out….im sure they got much higher winds than we did here in New Brunswick…Last night at 11pm I saw a reporter down in Yarmouth on the news and the tidal surges were getting pretty high and that’s just before the storm made landfall, so, hopefully everyone made out ok down there….?
@halifaxredemtion - My aunt in Dartmouth went out for a block party during Juan. :D
@kdog - hi from north of Woodstock. ;)
http://www.canadaeast.com/front/article/430826
Some Random: Thanks for that info!
[quote comment="66837"]where are you, Brent. My friend, John Chaulk, looks out his windows to Europe!
http://www.fenderforum.com/userphotos/index.html?recid=20137/quote
I’m in Corner Brook, on the western side of the island.
It was a pretty quiet night here in Halifax, thanks for thinking about Nova Scotia out there! We have friends in the Digby area to check on today, they have a farm with lots of smaller animals and out buildings. It looks like the remnants of the system will hit the South coast of Labrador.
Cheers
[quote comment="66837"]where are you, Brent. My friend, John Chaulk, looks out his windows to Europe!
http://www.fenderforum.com/userphotos/index.html?recid=20137/quote
He must have some eyesight!
And Congress Foil’s the COUP!!!! YES!!!!!!
[quote comment="66843"]The most recent hurricane to have hit us (NS) was category 2 hurricane Juan in 2003.
In February 2004, we were hit with a winter storm that dumped up to 100cm of snow in some places. It was nicknamed “White Juan” given the devastation it left within half a year of the original Juan.
Several lives were claimed in both storms.[/quote]
I was living on Purcell’s Cove Road, beside the yacht club and just down from the Rotary when Juan hit in ‘03.. Several of us (including our neighbours), stupidly went out “to investigate” that night along the water. There were boats crashed up on shore, in people’s yards, capsized and sinking in the harbour. We had no power for 4 or 5 days, and had to “shower” in Chocolate Lake. Everyone had their BBQ’s on the go in order to cook all of the food that was thawing. It was quite a mess indeed.
I remember everyone in the city walking around aimlessly, assessing all the damage following the hurricane: trees through houses, and trees crashed on top of cars, and flooding and broken water and electrical lines. Roads were closed from all the debris and broken trees in the streets, and because nothing was open, it was like an 8 hour wait to order pizza:)
“White Juan” followed that winter…That was insane too but not as bad as the first Juan.. If i can find my album of photos from that mess, I will drop a link.
I haven’t spoken to my parents yet regarding their weather, as they live on PEI- but i imagine they received nothing more than high winds and rain. For Prince Edward Island, it is very common to receive the tail end of hurricanes (which are usually downgraded by the time they reach land)- so I am assuming their is nothing to worry about there.
eastern PEI didn’t get too much…a few light chairs blew off my deck last night, but that’s about it.
hopefully everyone else faired out OK.
I’m glad my friends in Moncton were largely unaffected by this storm. I was without power for two weeks with Hurricane Ike! Talk about appreciating the simple things when you do without- the hot shower I took Saturday was possibly the best one ever after two weeks of cold water and cold food and life by flashlight.
Hmmm..have you not been paying attention? Nova Scotia has been hit by three hurricanes in the past five years…Juan in 2003,Noel in 2007 and Kyle in 2008.. and hurricane Hortense in 1996..making four hurricane landfalls in 12 years…that’s about as much as anyone in North America has expeienced during the same time period and more than most. Nova Scotia,like New England,every few years goes through a “pattern” of multiple landfalls over several years and then none for a period of time of say 10-20 years. Both Noel and Kyle made landfall as hurricanes over south Nova Scotia near Yarmouth.Juan and Hortense both made landfall as hurricanes just south and north respectivelly of the metro Halifax area. Noel had also caused much damage as it passed just east of Cape Cod Massachusetts which did not get reported in the press.
These storms may put to rest the myth of storms not hitting cooler water coastlines…aftr all,though in the 2000’s Florida was hit the most frequently,in the 1990’s it was North Carolina and the 1950-1960 decade it was New England.