PHOTOS: Fiona strikes the East Coast, cuts power and damages homes
Hundreds of thousands of customers are without power as post-tropical cyclone Fiona continues to sweep across Atlantic Canada, toppling power lines, trees and damaging homes. A town in Newfoundland is under a state of emergency after significant damage was reported
Post-tropical cyclone Fiona will continue impacting Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec with heavy rainfall and powerful hurricane force winds through Saturday.
An upper-level trough swinging over Eastern Canada forced the storm to transition into a powerful post-tropical cyclone late Friday night, allowing the storm’s wind field to grow in size as it smashed into the Atlantic provinces Saturday.
Hundreds of thousands are still without power Saturday, with more to be expected as the storm pushes farther across the region.
As a result of the ongoing storm, which has caused widespread power outages, structural damage and road closures, Cape Breton has declared a local state of emergency, the regional municipality stated on Twitter.
In Newfoundland, some residents in Port aux Basques have been forced to evacuate and some have lost their homes -- including a two-storey apartment building. Everything east of the town hall is under an emergency evacuation order due to post-tropical storm Fiona.
For an in-depth look at the Fiona's track and expected impacts, read our forecast here.
Below is a look at some of the impacts so far.
Power Outages as of 1:25 p.m. ADT/1:55 p.m. NDT:
Nova Scotia: 392,745 customers without power
Prince Edward Island: 82,188 customers without power
New Brunswick: 42,214 customers without power
Newfoundland: 2,562 customers without power
(Jessica Mills)
WATCH: Storm surge comes 'out of nowhere' on Cape Breton
Charlottetown, PEI (Jaclyn Whittal/The Weather Network)
Powerful winds cause large tree to come down on Main Avenue in Halifax, N.S. (Nathan Coleman/The Weather Network)
WATCH: Record winds batter reporter on Iles-de-la-Madeleine
With files from CBC News.