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August 8, 1926: The 1926 Nova Scotia hurricane made landfall in Nova Scotia as an extratropical storm, killing 55–58 people. August 24, 1927: The 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane made landfall in Nova Scotia as a Category 2 hurricane with 105 mph (169 km/h) winds, causing immense damage, reaching $1.6 million (1927 USD), and killed 172–193 people.
1804 New England hurricane; 1806 Great Coastal hurricane; 1869 Saxby Gale; 1893 Great Charleston hurricane; 1900 Galveston hurricane; 1926 Nova Scotia hurricane; 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane; 1932 Bahamas hurricane; 1940 New England hurricane; 1940 Nova Scotia hurricane; 1948 Bermuda–Newfoundland hurricane; 1970 Canada hurricane; 1991 Perfect Storm
Hurricane Fiona which struck Nova Scotia in September 2022. Hurricane Lee, which struck Nova Scotia in September 2023. Also of note due to its rarity and the damage caused is Hurricane Hazel which hit Toronto, Ontario in 1954, and remained a strong storm even after crossing over the U.S. East Coast.
Hurricane Lee was a long-lived and intense tropical cyclone which impacted Bermuda, the Northeastern United States, and Eastern Canada in September 2023. The twelfth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, Lee formed on September 5 from a tropical wave that had moved offshore from West Africa into the tropical Atlantic a few days earlier.
A busy hurricane season that saw the National Hurricane Center in Miami issue the first-ever tropical storm warning for the coast of California and hurricane warnings as far north as Nova Scotia ...
This Satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Leslie, now a hurricane, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit - NOAA—AP
Hurricane Nigel is forecast to ‘rapidly intensify’ to become a Category 3 hurricane
A Category 5 Atlantic hurricane is a tropical cyclone that reaches Category 5 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator. They are among the strongest tropical cyclones that can form on Earth, having 1-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 137 knots (254 km/h ; 158 mph ; 70 m ...