Leslie Making Landfall

Just a quick note to say Leslie is making landfall on the Burin Peninsula near Fortune. St. Johns is being directly affected.

The main issue here is flooding and power outages. Power is already out in most places.

She is set to make a second landfall soon as she is now over a Peninsula headed for the mainland.

Remember when you look at this that originally, according to early models Leslie was never supposed to get this far west as she was originally forecast to curve gracefully back towards Great Britain. Just something to remember while looking at the earliest forecast cones for the next named storm Nadine.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/09/11/newfoundland-storm-leslie.html?cmp=rss

Understand also that with her forward speed being so fast ... you add that to her intensity as a mathematical problem and the end result is they will be getting stronger gusts than if she had hit Cape Hatteras moving at 5 mph forward speed with the same intensity. Those northern provinces really get slammed up there... just a fact. More like a hurricane than a tropical storm.

The following tweets say it all:

CBC Weather Centre ‏@CBCWeather

According to CHC Leslie essentially as powerful as a Cat 1 hurricane at landfall but the structure now technically makes it post tropical.

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2hCBC Weather Centre ‏@CBCWeather

"Leslie will make landfall with winds in excess of 120 km/h." Chris Fogarty - CHC

More later..

Besos Bobbi