Hurricane Joaquin hammers the Bahamas as Canadian centre tracks its path
Posted Oct 2, 2015 10:17:41 AM.
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HALIFAX – The Canadian Hurricane Centre says it is monitoring Hurricane Joaquin, which may move into Canadian waters early next week.
The storm is battering the central Bahamas with torrential rains that flooded homes and forecasters warned that the “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm could grow even stronger as it roared along a path that could take it near the U.S. east coast.
The Halifax-based Canadian Hurricane Centre says there’s a high degree of uncertainty around the storm’s track forecast.
It says there are two particular scenarios, one that would have it moving into the Carolinas and the other showing it far offshore from Atlantic Canada.
The latest trends from computer models lean toward it being an offshore system with little impact over land.
If it does move into the Carolinas, the centre says that could lead to rainfall in southern Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada.
