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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Arthur becomes hurricane, will bring messy weather to Atlantic Canada

This Wednesday, July 2, 2014, satellite image taken at 3:35 p.m. EDT and released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Tropical Storm Arthur moving north off the east coast of Florida. The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season prompted a hurricane warning for a wide swath of the North Carolina coast and spurred authorities to order a mandatory evacuation for visitors to the Outer Banks' Hatteras Island as of 5 a.m. Thursday, July 3, 2014. Residents also were advised to leave the island. A voluntary evacuation was announced for the Outer Banks' Ocracoke Island, accessible only by ferry. (AP Photo/NOAA) A storm headed towards the Maritimes is expected to lose its hurricane strength when it arrives in the region Saturday, but still carry potent winds and heavy rains. Meteorologist Bob Robichaud of the Canadian Hurricane Centre said Thursday he expects Arthur to be a strong post-tropical storm with sustained winds of 65 kilometres an hour or more. "We're still looking right now at a tropical storm arriving, but very, very close to hurricane strength," he said. Robichaud expects Nova Scotia will experience the heaviest winds while New Brunswick could see the most rainfall, adding that it's still too early to determine where Arthur could make landfall.




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