‘Very intense’ windstorm rocks Maritimes, heads toward Newfoundland
HALIFAX — A fall storm packing winds that gusted to almost 130 kilometres an hour closed schools, shut down ferry services and knocked out power throughout the Maritimes early Thursday.
“The Maritimes are closed today. Call again later,” one Twitter user joked after thousands of people in Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and New Brunswick awoke to darkness when the powerful winds blew through the region overnight and into the morning.
“It was very quick moving, so it crossed over Nova Scotia and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence in a short time frame,” said Ian Hubbard, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.
“It was very intense in terms of its impacts in a short time.”