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The strongest hurricane to make landfall in Canada was Hurricane Ginny of 1963, [2] which had winds of 105 mph (169 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 948 millibars (28.0 inHg), making it a Category 2 hurricane at the time of its landfall near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. [1]
The ferocity of Lee was unleashed on New England and the Canadian Maritimes over the weekend, ending the nearly two-week journey of the most powerful storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.
Stephanie Abrams, a meteorologist with The Weather Channel, warned residents of New England and Canada’s Maritime Provinces that today was the “last day to prepare” before Hurricane Lee ...
The Canadian Hurricane Centre tweeted early Saturday that Fiona has the lowest pressure ever recorded for a storm making landfall in Canada. Forecasters had warned it could be the one of the most ...
The strongest storm by 1-minute sustained winds was Hurricane Allen. Storms which reached a minimum central pressure of 920 millibars (27.17 inHg) or less are listed. Storm information has been compiled back to 1851, though measurements were rarer until aircraft reconnaissance started in the 1940s, and inexact estimates were still predominant ...
Hurricane Fiona was a large, powerful, and destructive tropical cyclone which was the most intense post-tropical cyclone to hit Canada on record. It was also the costliest cyclone to hit the country until this record was broken by Debby in 2024.
A hurricane warning was issued for Bermuda on Thursday by the island territory's meteorological service as Fiona continued its northward track in the Atlantic as a Category 4 hurricane. The first ...
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane, with a pressure of 892 mbar (hPa; 26.34 inHg), is the third strongest Atlantic hurricane and the strongest documented tropical cyclone prior to 1950. [11] Since the measurements taken during Wilma and Gilbert were documented using dropsonde, this pressure remains the lowest measured over land. [63]