Post tropical storm Teddy dumping rain all across Nova Scotia

Post tropical storm Teddy is still going strong, bringing plenty of rain, wind gusts, and pounding surf to the Atlantic coastline as the storm makes landfall this morning, according to the Canadian Hurricane Centre.

Meteorologist Roberta McArthur telling NEWS 95.7 Teddy's winds will slowly weaken as the storm moves over cooler coastal waters.

After a brief lull overnight, Teddy is now dumping rain all across the province. As of 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, Shearwater is reporting 85 millimetres of rain, and Halifax Stanfield recorded 51 millimetres at 3AM. Grand Etang reported a peak gust of 145 kilometres per hour, and Ingonish had 128 millimetres of rain as of 3 AM.

McArthur says the highest and strongest winds will be east of the storm track which is currently expecting Teddy to make landfall between Halifax east of Porter's Lake, and Guysborough County.

“Gusts approaching 100, 110 kilometres per hour for eastern Nova Scotia, so more up towards Guysborough, Richmond, and Sydney County groups,” explains McArthur. “For Halifax, and areas that track west of the centre, we could still see some fairly strong gusts approaching 70, 80 kilometres an hour from the north west.”

McArthur says landfall is expected around eight o'clock Wednesday morning, and given the risk of storm surge, residents are being told to stay away from the coastline.

The storm has led Halifax Regional Centre for Education to cancel classes for the day. Full details about closures and cancellations can be found HERE.

For power outages, HRM is dealing with a major power outage in Clayton Park, with more than 3,400 customer in the dark. The estimated restoration time for that outage is 1:45 Wednesday afternoon. In the Dartmouth, Cole Harbour, and Eastern Passage areas, there's an outage affecting 2,334 customers, the eta on restoring power there is 2:30 today. Down the South Shore, Bridgewater is reporting 436 customers in the dark. However, the western shore of Nova Scotia is dotted with power outages affecting multiple municipalities. Some of the largest are 2,000 in the dark in Coldbrook, and a little over 400 in Digby.

Details on power outages can be found HERE.