Hurricane Bill takes aim at Canada

“Atlantic Canada looks like it is under a longer-range threat,” Bowyer said. “Everyone in Atlantic Canada needs to be ready.”

A weather front moving east across the U.S. will probably keep Bill away from the country’s Eastern Seaboard, said Jim Rouiller, a senior energy meteorologist at Planalytics Inc. in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

“This is a very dangerous Category 4,” Rouiller said by telephone. “The East Coast is lucky.”

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clipped from www.bloomberg.com No storm of Category 3 intensity or stronger has hit Canada since record-keeping began in 1851, Bowyer said. If Bill strikes Canada, it will probably be a weak Category 2 or a strong Category 1, said Dan Kottlowski, a meteorologist at AccuWeather.com in State College, Pennsylvania. The last storm that strong to hit Nova Scotia was Hurricane Juan in September 2003, he said. Juan caused about C$100 million ($91.2 million) damage, according to Environment Canada, the government’s weather Web site. The name Juan was retired from the international list of storm names. “I never want to see that again,” Bowyer said of Juan. “We had about 1 million trees fall across Halifax and about 100 million across the entire province. I learned when trees fall, other things happen.” “We’re most concerned for the coastal section” of New England, Kottlowski said by telephone. “Cape Cod is like a sitting duck in these types of situations.”