A weakened Dorian could still bring 'dangerous storm surge' to eastern Canada
No longer a hurricane, Dorian is continuing to weaken as it moves across eastern Canada, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Sunday night.
Now a post-tropical cyclone, Dorian made landfall in Nova Scotia on Saturday night, and by Sunday night it was 25 miles east-northeast of St. Anthony, Newfoundland, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph. It is moving northeast at 23 mph. Even though it is not a hurricane, "dangerous storm surge impacts are likely in portions of the northeastern Gulf of St. Lawrence and western Newfoundland," the National Hurricane Center said.
Dorian hit the Bahamas last Sunday as a Category 5 hurricane, resulting in the deaths of at least 43 people. Thousands of people remain missing, and the United Nations estimates about 70,000 people are now homeless.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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