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Record Low Px Fiona
« on: September 24, 2022, 08:50:54 AM »
Our News Channel said there is a CoCoRaHS reporter with a Canadian record low Px in Eastern Nova Scotia.

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Re: Record Low Px Fiona
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2022, 02:10:44 PM »
..had to do a double take...windy.com hurricane tracker is reporting 948 hPa at 2:00 pm today. May have been lower earlier this morning.. Not often you see those numbers in Canada!
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Re: Record Low Px Fiona
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2022, 05:25:17 PM »
The news channel said the report was 938 or less at one point. I don't know where to look to find what he saw.

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Re: Record Low Px Fiona
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2022, 07:39:34 PM »
The news channel said the report was 938 or less at one point. I don't know where to look to find what he saw.
FIONA made Canadian landfall closest to METAR CWRN (Hart Island, NS).
Unfortunately CWRN went offline (power outages?) so no weather data was transmitted except for one single data point for Station Pressure that might tell the tale:

Sep 24 05:00 2022    93.43 kPa (data provided by weatherstats.ca)

However, Buoy 44488 not too far north of CWRN stayed operational and transmitted Station Pressure of 932.8 hPa at 5:00 am (Mesowest).

Time is local (ADT) or UTC-3

Could be other reports out there but I could not find an easy way to track pressure vs time of a hurricane.

Interesting question though: What is the lowest pressure reading in Canada for FIONA. Where and when and how much? Where can this data be found?
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Re: Record Low Px Fiona
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2022, 07:43:45 PM »
Issued at 6:43 PM ADT Sunday 25 September 2022

Updated preliminary storm summary on Fiona.

THIS IS THE FINAL INFORMATION STATEMENT FOR THIS STORM.

1. Full Discussion of the Event.

Tropical depression Fiona formed over the central tropical Atlantic on September 15th. The tropical depression became better organized and its intensity gradually increased during the following day when the National Hurricane Centre reported tropical storm force winds near the centre of the cyclone. On September 16th Fiona reached the Leeward Islands while on its way to the western Atlantic. Two days later Fiona quickly intensified into a category 1 hurricane while turning to the northwest and passing through the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.

On September 18th Fiona began to intensify becoming a major hurricane and reaching category 4 while turning northward east of the Bahamas. Fiona maintained strong and dominant tropical characteristics as it moved into the Canadian Hurricane Centre Response Zone. Fiona began interacting with a mid-latitude upper trough as it advanced over the Canadian marine waters south of Nova Scotia on Friday the 23rd. At that point, maximum winds around the centre began to diminish. However, once the extra-tropical transition process was complete post-tropical storm Fiona re-intensified between Sable Island and the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. By that time hurricane-force winds were spreading across parts of Atlantic Canada and over eastern Quebec.
   
Fiona made landfall as a category-2 hurricane strength (maximum sustained wind speeds of 165 km/h or 90 knots) post-tropical cyclone near Whitehead, located 28 km southwest of the town of Canso, Nova Scotia, during the early morning hours of Saturday September 24th - It generated damaging winds, , torrential rainfall, large waves and destructive storm surge. The central pressure is expected to be the lowest recorded barometric pressure in Canadian history. The nearest automatic weather station located at Hart Island measured a sea level pressure of 932.7 millibars, while the East Chedabucto Bay buoy measured 932.8. We are still analysing these data for accuracy.

Post-tropical storm Fiona headed north into the Gulf of St. Lawrence Saturday and brought damaging winds, torrential rainfall, large waves and destructive storm surge to the region. Fiona became fully absorbed by the upper trough on Sunday the 25th, and the remnant low still generated gale to storm force wind gusts as it moved over the Lower Quebec North Shore and then Labrador.


2. Summary of peak wind gusts in km/h:

For New Brunswick

Miscou Island: 113
Moncton Airport: 100
Saint John: 86
Crowe Brook: 85
Bas Caraquet: 82

For Newfoundland

Wreckhouse: 177
Green Island (Fortune Bay): 150
Port aux Basques: 134
Stephenville Airport: 117
Ramea: 114

For Nova Scotia

Arisaig: 179
Grand Etang: 167
Beaver Island: 160
St Paul Island: 158
Wadden's Cove: 150
Sydney: 149

For Prince Edward Island

East Point: 149
St Peters: 141
Summrerside: 140
North Cape: 136
Charlottetown: 131

For eastern Quebec

Iles-de-la-Madeleine: 126
Pointe-Heath: 105
Blanc-Sablon: 102
Cap-d'Espoir: 100
Chevery: 85
Natashquan: 81

3. Summary of rainfall in millimetres:

For New Brunswick amounts exceeded 100 mm in a few localities.

Crowe Brook: 107
Fundy Park: 105
Mechanic Settlement: 87
Saint John: 68
Musquash: 66

For Newfoundland amounts were highest in the southwest.

Wreckhouse: 77
Stephenville Airport: 53
Port aux basques: 51
Kippens: 46
 
For Nova Scotia the highest amounts were reported over eastern areas and it ranged from 100 to 200 mm. There was unofficial report of more than 200 mm near Antigonish.

Sable Island: 152
Port Hawkesbury: 151
Meaghers Hill: 149
Truro: 145
Mclellans Brook: 137

For Prince Edward Island amounts ranged from 60 to 90 mm, but it is likely that some higher amounts occurred over southern sections of Kings county.

ST Peters: 89
East Point: 80
Charlottetown: 80
Stanhope: 73
North Cape: 71

For eastern Quebec amounts ranged from 50 to near 100 mm.

Iles-de-la-Madeleine: 92
Ile Anticosti: 78
Gaspe: 51
Chevery: 50
 
 
4. Summary of wave and storm surge information:

Large waves and elevated water levels were triggered by the passage of Fiona over eastern Canada. Extremely large waves reached the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia late Friday. Buoy data indicated wave heights of 5 to 8 metres. The largest offshore waves were near and east of the track of Fiona; this was indicated by satellite information and reports from a buoy over Banquereau Bank where waves averaged 12 to 15 metres with peaks waves as high as 30 metres. Some of these waves would impacted Cabot Strait and southwestern Newfoundland. Over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the largest waves were generally between 4 and 6 metres, but peaks waves of 10 metres were measured east of the Gaspe Peninsula, and 16 metres over eastern sections of the Gulf.

Two water level records were established on Saturday, at Escuminac, New Brunswick, the peak water level measured was 2.82 metres (with a previous record 2.47), and at Port aux Basques that peak was 2.75 metres (with a previous record 2.71). These elevated waters levels were mostly driven by storm surge and extremely large waves which resulted in devastating flooding conditions especially along the coastlines of southwestern Newfoundland, eastern and northern Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island Northumblerland and Gulf coastlines, east coast of New Brunswick, and Iles-de-la-Madeleine. Also, there were reports of damage due to waves along parts of the Gaspe Peninsula coastline.       


FORECASTER: Fogarty/Mercer/Couturier.

Please continue to monitor alerts issued by the Canadian Hurricane Centre and forecasts issued by Environment Canada.
weather.gc.ca/hurricane/statements_e.html

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Re: Record Low Px Fiona
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2022, 07:36:47 AM »
Thanks davidmc36 for the excellent summary..

Heartbreaking to see all that devastation.
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Re: Record Low Px Fiona
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2022, 07:49:59 AM »
Some of the images are shocking.

I got the summary from Environment Canada App on my phone. I was pleased to see they published such a detailed report

 

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