Hurricane Bill forecast to track through Nova Scotia, Newfoundland

The Canadian Hurricane Centre has issued a five-day marine forecast for the south shore of Nova Scotia that includes gale force winds of between 40 km-h and 65 km-h by August 22, as Hurricane Bill threatens to brush by Canada’s Eastern Coast.
Hurricane Bill is currently a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic Ocean, near Bermuda, with sustained wind speeds of up to 215 km-h.
Currently the hurricane is tracking towards the eastern seaboard of the United States. But the U.S. National Hurricane Center forecasts that “a large mid-latitude trough is expected to swing eastward over the Eastern United States…forcing Bill to turn northward away from the U.S. East Coast.”
The five-day track forecast from the U.S. National Hurricane Centre shows Bill’s path leading over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland between Aug. 22-23, estimating wind speeds of more than 116 km-h.
“Historical data indicate that the entire five-day path of the center of the tropical cyclone will remain within the cone about 60-70% of the time,” the National Hurricane Centre forecast centre says.
The Canadian Press has quoted representatives of the Canadian Hurricane Centre as saying the storm would track through the Bay of Fundy, but it was still too soon to determine whether the storm would make landfall.
In September 2003, Hurricane Juan, a Category 2 hurricane, was the most powerful storm to hit Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in more than 100 years.