Statement from Environment Canada:

Tropical Cyclone Information Statements

 

2:31 PM ADT Friday 18 September 2020
Tropical cyclone information statement for:

For Hurricane Teddy.

The next information statement will be issued by 09:00 A.M. ADT Saturday.

Hurricane Teddy will approach the Maritimes early next week with impacts likely for parts of the region on Tuesday and Wednesday.

As of Friday afternoon, major hurricane Teddy is currently southeast of Bermuda and is moving northwestward. Teddy will continue on its current path over the next few days before making a turn northward on Sunday. Teddy is then expected to enter the Canadian Hurricane Centre response zone on Monday before approaching the Maritimes on Tuesday.

Track errors this far in advance remain large, but the latest computer modelling suggests that the centre of Teddy could make landfall along the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia late Tuesday. Possible impacts include strong, potentially damaging winds, storm surge along with pounding surf, and heavy rainfall.

The Canadian Hurricane Centre is closely monitoring the evolution of this potentially dangerous storm. Interests in Atlantic Canada should closely monitor forecasts this weekend as the situation continues to evolve.

The Canadian Hurricane Centre will begin issuing regular updates on Teddy beginning 09:00 AM Saturday.

Forecaster(s): McArthur.

Please continue to monitor alerts issued by the Canadian Hurricane Centre and forecasts issued by Environment Canada.

 

Predicted track has shifted a little to the east over the past couple of days:

getting close guys, hope you have the generators full and lots of junk food on hand

Getting closer now, the winds have picked up in Halifax and the heavy rains have started.  I saw on the news that there have been waves measured at a LaHave weather buoy at 10m (33 ft!) already.  The worst of it will come overnight and into the early morning hours, though.

Here's it's forecasted track at 9AM AST:

If you want to see what it looks like for yourself, check out the storm tracker webcam at the link below:

https://www.novascotiawebcams.com/en/webcams/storm-tracker/

 

Keep your head down out there Todd, looks like you guys are taking a direct hit??

Ive had about 44 mm of rain, supposed to stop around 9am. Wind has not been as bad as expected and storm surge came after high tide. Wind direction helped a lot with the storm surge, wind was blowing off the land blowing the water out to sea. Never lost power but there are some outages not far from me.

Looks like we missed the worst of this one here on the south shore at least.

About 50mm of rain so far here. Minor winds. I'm hoping we dodged a bullet however strong winds are due later today.

Well, it's pretty much over for the Halifax region, and it didn't seem to be much more severe than your average nor'easter to be honest.  We had a lot of rain, and some good wind gusts, but nothing near what we have experienced in past hurricanes or tropical storms.  Haven't read any damage assessments, though, but it sounds like our main agricultural area, the Annapolis valley area, did not suffer much loss, thankfully.

It turned post-tropical before making landfall, and I think that helped to lessen the intensity of the winds.

At 9am, it was just making landfall to the east of Halifax:

And by 3pm it had cleared our province and is on its way to skirt the west coast of NL.  Hope our PEI and NL members fare as well as we did.

Thanks for the concern from members in other parts of the country... looks like we dodged another one!

-- Edited by MC on Wednesday 23rd of September 2020 01:48:20 PM