According to the

National Hurricane Center American

(NHC), Fiona touched down early Saturday in the province of

Nova Scotia

(eastern Canada) with

lives in excess of 144 kilometers per hour

.

Fiona is expected to become "

a very intense post-tropical storm

" after hitting the coast, producing "

very heavy rain and strong winds

" as well as "

big waves

".

"

It will certainly be a historic and extreme event for eastern Canada,

" CHC meteorologist

Bob Robichaud

repeated Friday at a press conference .

The hurricane was pushed north very quickly by the

jet stream

, a jet stream is a fast channeled flow of air, located in the Earth's atmosphere generally just below the tropopause, coming from the west, from above the United States.

Officials from the province of Nova Scotia issued a power outage

warning

, asking everyone to

stay indoors

and have

enough supplies

for

at least 72 hours

.

Prime Minister

Justin Trudeau

said "

It is going badly

" and asked everyone to "

take the right precautions

".

He has decided to postpone the trip to

Japan

for the

funeral

of former Prime Minister

Shinzo Abe

.

In

Halifax

, capital of the province of Nova Scotia, the shops have

run out of gas refills

propane for camping as locals rush to

stock

up . 

AP Photoi

Hurricane Fiona, empty supermarkets in Canada

"

We hope it slows down when it hits colder waters, but it doesn't feel like it ,"

Dave Buis

of the Northern Yacht Club in North Sydney, Nova Scotia

told Canadian television .

So far, Fiona's passage has resulted in the

deaths of four people in Puerto Rico

, US territory,

one death

has been reported in

Guadeloupe

(France) and

two in the Dominican Republic

.