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Fiona, now a post-tropical cyclone after a destructive run as a hurricane, has already washed away homes, toppled trees and left thousands without power in Atlantic Canada after the storm made landfall early Saturday.
The Canadian Hurricane Centre called Fiona a «historic storm for eastern Canada» and a «potential landmark weather event» in a region where hurricanes are relatively rare. Many storms weaken when they reach colder waters.
Fiona is forecast to maintain hurricane-force winds until Saturday afternoon, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It is expected to gradually weaken in the next few days.
Forecasters also warned Fiona could bring widespread power outages, and about 400,000 Nova Scotia Power customers were without power Saturday morning, the company reported.
Saturday morning, Fiona was about 100 miles northwest of Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph and was moving north at 25 mph.
Before passing through Bermuda on Friday, the storm devastated large swaths of the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Officials in Bermuda reported no serious damage.
At least five people have died after Hurricane Fiona — two in Puerto Rico, two in the Dominican Republic and one in the French island of Guadeloupe.
As Fiona ripped through Atlantic Canada, it washed away homes, toppled trees and power lines, and tore roofs off houses.
