Canadian Hurricane Centre closely monitoring Isaias

The Canadian Hurricane Centre is keeping a close eye on Hurricane Isaias.

The Category One storm is currently on its way to the Bahamas with maximum sustained winds of 130 km/h.

The latest track shows it approaching Nova Scotia by Wednesday, but meteorologist Ian Hubbard says it's still too early to know if we are in Isaias' sights.

“At this point, there's a great deal of uncertainty with the track of this, not only where it's going to go, how fast it's going to go, but as well as its strength,” Hubbard explained.

“The track isn't necessarily the important thing, it's the cone that's associated with it because, by [next week], that storm could be anywhere within that cone,” he added. “So that could put it well south of Nova Scotia, or it could put it somewhere over New England at this point being so far away.”

Hubbard said if Isaias does come our way, it would need to travel over a lot of cold water to get here.

“Hurricanes do need warm water to thrive so they tend to lose a lot of strength when they hit that area of cooler water and it takes away their energy source.”

While still a tropical storm, Isaias destroyed crops and caused widespread flooding and small landslides in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, where one man died and a woman is still missing. 

With files from Canadian Press