Wx Centre

Hurricane Polo is strengthening as it moves north toward the southwestern coast of Mexico, where tropical storm conditions are expected later Wednesday. Polo has maximum sustained winds of 250 km/h, making it a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The National Hurricane Center says the storm is located about 300 kilometres south of Zihuatanejo and 540 kilometres southeast of Manzanillo. Polo is moving north at about 4 km/h. A turn toward the northw

Tropical Storm Fay is weakening as it moves south-southeast over the Atlantic slowly, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. As of 9 a.m. GMT Monday, Fay is located about 655 kilometres southwest of the Azores. The storm has maximum sustained winds of 100 km/h, down from earlier strength, with higher gusts. Fay is moving south-southeast at about 4 km/h. The National Hurricane Center expects the storm to turn toward the southwest and move faster over the next few day

We now have Tropical Storm Fay. Fay is located about 730 kilometres southwest of the Azores. The storm has maximum sustained winds of 75 km/h, with higher gusts, and is moving north-northeast at approximately 7 km/h. The National Hurricane Center expects Fay to continue moving north-northeast for about another day before turning toward the southwest on Monday. Additional strengthening is expected over the next day or so. Tropical-storm-force winds currently extend outward up

A low-pressure system in the eastern subtropical Atlantic is showing signs of becoming more organized, with tropical development possible later today or tonight. The system, designated AL99, is located several hundred miles southwest of the western Azores. Showers and thunderstorms have become more concentrated near the centre of the low since Friday. The system is expected to move north-northeast at about 5 mph while remaining well southwest of the Azores. Forecasters say a

Several earthquakes have occurred in the Fox Islands and Aleutian Islands area of Alaska. The strongest earthquake was magnitude 6.5. It occurred at 4:19 a.m. local time Thursday morning. It was situated 166.0 km west of Nikolski, Alaska, at a depth of 108 km. The National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, said a tsunami was not expected

The Atlantic hurricane season is reaching its climatological peak, with September typically the most active month for tropical activity. The official Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30, but tropical cyclone activity generally increases through August and reaches its peak around September 10. The period from mid-August through mid-October is typically the busiest part of the season. While Newfoundland and Labrador is rarely directly affected by hurr