Environment Canada releases rain and wind impacts from Teddy
Posted Sep 24, 2020 02:27:00 PM.
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Post-tropical storm Teddy brought heavy rain, strong wind gusts and big waves to the province on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The tropical system made landfall Wednesday morning near Ecum Secum.
Environment Canada has released a summary of how Teddy impacted Nova Scotia.
Halifax was on what is considered to be the rain side of Teddy's track and several weather stations near the city measured significant rainfall totals.
Here's Environment Canada's summary of weather event information from Teddy:
Summary of rainfall in millimetres:
Ingonish Beach 132.4
Aspy Bay 121.7
South Harbour 120.1
Bedford Range 110.2
Hammonds plains 109.0
Bedford 99.8
Fall River 99.3
Lower Sackville 94.2
Halifax Kootenay 93.6
Osborne Head 92.8
Halifax Windsor Park 92.4
Shearwater 91.3
Dartmouth 89.4
Rawdon Gold mines 88.9
Halifax Stanfield Intl A 88.9
Duncan Cove 87.4
Elmsdale 84.1
Kentville 83.7
Wolfville 80.3
Eastern Passage 70.6
Malay Falls 65.0
Trafalgar 71.6
Malay Falls 64.7
Lunenburg 64.5
Mahone Bay 61.5
Truro 57.2
Scots Bay 56.4
Western Head 51.9
Debert 51.6
Nappan 51.3
Antigonish 51.1
New Ross 49.9
Parrsboro 47.8
Sydney Airport 47.5
Greenwood 47.0
Collegeville 44.3
Tracadie 44.9
Port Hawkesbury 45.9
Summary of wind gusts in kilometres per hour:
Grand Etang 145
Eskasoni First Nation 119
Cheticamp 109
Hart Island 109
Beaver Island 102
Brier Island 95
Sable Island A 94
Baccaro Pt 87
Louisbourg 87
Sydney Airport 93
Yarmouth Airport 81
Port Hawkesbury 84
Lunenburg 77
Caribou Point 75
Parrsboro 72
Osborne Head 73
Shearwater Jetty 70
Summary of information from buoys south of Nova Scotia:
La Have Bank B44150
Max wind gust of 111 kilometres per hour with a max significant wave height 12.8 metres
East Scotian Slope B44137
Max wind gust of 111 kilometres per hour with a max significant wave height 12.1 metres
