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A LEGEND Total Precipitation Community Status*

< 25mm ! Significant Damage 25 - 49mm State of Emergency

Trouty B 50 - 74mm Highway Status** 75 - 99mm Passable Highway! 100 - 124mm Highway Closure ! 125 - 149mm

150 - 174mm 05 10 20 30 40 50 and its severe impacts certainly represent a rare event in which ! has been described as the worst in memory. In statistical terms, this was effectively a 50-100 175 - 200mm . Kilometers year event depending on how one chooses to define it. There are no hurricane / post-tropical ! events of this magnitude striking Newfoundland in the modern era. in Nova C ! Scotia was the last Atlantic Canadian hurricane to cause extreme damage. Prior to the naming > 200 mm *Municipalities - As reported by Municipal Affairs of hurricanes, the 1935 “Newfoundland Hurricane” 75 years ago was of similar intensity and ** Highway status data only for Bonavista and Burin Peninsulas. potential low pressure interaction. Gambo Bonavista –Environment Elliston Sandringham Newman's Cove

King's Cove ! Trinty Bay North Terra Nova ! ! D West ! A C ! Trinity Wind Profile - Bonavista

Port Blandford B 93 ! D 1 ! ! 126

! Sustained Wind Km/h- ! ! Ï E !! Category 1 Hillview E ! Sept 21- 3:30PM (NST) ! 75 kts (140km/h) - 950mb 131 Max. Sustained Sunnyside ! !! ! Wind Speeds < 40 km/h Come By Chance ! ! 146 !!! 96 40 - 50 km/h ! ! Torbay 156 50 - 60 km/h ! ! 113 ! ! ! ! 70 - 80 km/h ! F 135 80 - 90 km/h ! 90 - 100 km/h ! ! 146 St. John's ! ! ! 100 - 110 km/h F ! 109 115 137 G > 110 km/h 131 128 Wind Gusts (km/h) ! Long Harbour- ! BURIN ! ! Mount Arlington Heights 124 135 PENINSULA ! 172 172 ! ! Hibernia Platform* ! AVALON 0 50 100 PENINSULA Kilometers * Estimated H ! G Jacques Fontaine !! ! ! Note: Hurricane positions at 12:00 UTC (9:30AM NDT) ! Saffir-Simpson SEPT 22 Burin Hurricane Scale* Category 1 Lawn Canada Max. Sustained Winds: 120 km/h Central Pressure: 960 mb Category 4 ! ! Wind Speed: 210-249 km/h St. Lawrence Category 3 !! Wind Speed: 178-209 km/h I ! Category 2 Wind Speed: 154-177 km/h Category 1 Wind Speed: 119-153 km/h SEPT 21 Tropical Storm H Wind Speed: 61-118 km/h Tropical Depression Wind Speed: < 61 km/h Category 4 Max Sustained Winds: 215 km/h Infrared Image - NASA Aqua Satellite Some Data From Similar Events Central Pressure: 942 mb Sept 21, 2010 - 1:23PM (NST) Over the Past 10 Years in Newfoundland: Disturbance

Hurricane Michael (Oct 2000): United States SEPT 20 Peak winds over land was similar to Igor, 172 km/h at St. Lawrence of America 1 on the southern . Highest sustained wind was Hurricane Igor Statistics 128km/h at Sagona Island. Life Cycle: Sept 8th - Sept 21st, 2010 SEPT 19 Tropical Storm Gabrielle (Sept 2001): Highest Winds: 250 km/h (Sept. 15th) Ï Category 1 175mm fell in the St. John’s area causing flooding. Heaviest Lowest Pressure: 924 mbar Gulf of Mexico St. Lawrence localized to eastern Avalon. Damage: Newfoundland: $200,000,000 Sept 21, 12:30PM (NST) SEPT 18 I Bermuda: $500,000 Post-Tropical Storm Florence (Sept 2006): Fatalities: 4 Direct: Random Island (NL) 70 kts (130km/h) - 952mb Cuba SEPT 17 A hurricane-force event much like Igor with the same peak wind at North Carolina (US) Sagona Island as Igor (163 km/h). Wind damage was nowhere U.S. Virgin Islands PR Mexico near as widespread. In Francois, east of , a home was SEPT 16 blown off its footings and over an embankment. SEPT 15 Hurricane Igor Records Carribean Sea SEPT 14 Tropical Storm Chantal (Aug 2007): SEPT 13 SEPT 12 SEPT 11 150-200mm of rainfall was recorded in the and Whitbourne Largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin, in terms SEPT 10 0 500 1,000 SEPT 9 areas of the . Some communities were cut-off due of diameter (1,480 km) SEPT 8SEPT 7 to road washouts. The tropical storm merged with a stationary front 3rd wettest hurricane in Canadian history (238mm in St. Lawrence) Atlantic ESRI Regional User Conference Venezuela similar to Igor, but the rainfall was not as widespread. Kilometers Brightness Tempature Scale (deg K) Strongest hurricane in Atlantic Basin since 2007 1st Place - 2010 Map Gallery - Enviroment Canada * The Saffir-Simpson scale measures hurricances according to intensity. Hurricanes are measured from category 1 to 5 distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.

Department of Finance Sources: Photos: Department of Municipal Affairs; Rainfall and Wind Data: Enviroment Canada, NOAA; Hurricane Track Data: Enviroment Canada, NOAA; Newfoundland & Statistics Agency State of Emergency Data: , Department of Municipal Affairs, CBC; Highway Data: Department of Transportation & Works; Others: Wikipedia, NASA