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
.