En route to East Coast, Kyle grows into hurricane

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Tropical storm Kyle has grown into a hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters said Saturday evening.

With winds of up to 120 km/h, the hurricane could make landfall anywhere between Nova Scotia and Maine, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

The storm is aimed directly for Saint John, according to Guy Roussel, a meteorologist at the Canadian Hurricane Centre. Kyle is expected to lash the Maritimes with up to 140 mm of rain and winds reaching up to 120 km/h by late Sunday or early Monday morning.

"Rainfalls will be kind of torrential in some areas. Within 12 hours you could get up to 100 mm of rain," Roussel said.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/27/kyle-hurricane.html


This NOAA satellite image taken Friday at 1:15 a.m. ET shows Kyle, which grew into a hurricane Saturday, located to the southwest of Bermuda. (Weather Underground/Associated Press)

Environment Canada's Official Weather Warnings
Shelburne County
4:50 PM ADT Saturday 27 September 2008
Tropical storm warning for
Shelburne County issued

Tropical storm Kyle is intensifying and moving northward towards the Maritimes.

A tropical storm warning means that sustained gales...Winds of 63 km/h or more...Are expected in the specified areas within 24 hours. By nature a tropical storm also implies the threat of local flooding from heavy rainfall. By nature a tropical storm warning also implies the threat of local flooding from heavy rainfall.



At 3PM ADT this afternoon tropical storm Kyle was located 465 kilometres west of Bermuda and moving northward 24 km/h. On its path Kyle is forecast to pass just to the west of Yarmouth very late Sunday evening or very early Monday morning just before making landfall on the New Brunswick coast before dawn Monday.

Current expectations are that Kyle will push tropical storm force winds of 80 km/h with gusts to 120 km/h into the tri-county region of Nova Scotia early Sunday evening. Depending on the exact track and strength and position of Kyle sustained hurricane force winds may be possible near the coast just as Kyle passes west of Yarmouth. A hurricane watch has been issued concurrently for this possibility.
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?ns5

Take cover.