Hurricane Fiona 2022 track update: Fiona no longer a hurricane but has 105 mph winds

It’s not Hurricane Fiona anymore, but it’s still packing a punch.

The National Hurricane Center said Fiona has lost its tropical characteristics and become a strong extratropical storm as it tracked closer to Nova Scotia on Friday night with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.

The National Hurricane Center said strong winds and heavy rain were moving over Nova Scotia late Friday, and hurricane warnings continue for many areas in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

Fiona could reach those areas by tonight as a powerful storm with hurricane-force winds, storm surge and heavy rain.

Fiona won’t directly affect the U.S. East Coast but is bringing the risk for deadly rip currents along the beaches, and a high wind warning has been issued for tonight for parts of Maine.

As of 10 p.m. CDT Friday, the center of Post-Tropical Storm Fiona was located about 140 miles east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was racing to the north at 46 mph.

The hurricane center said that on the forecast path Fiona will move across Nova Scotia tonight, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Saturday, and then across Labrador and over the Labrador Sea on Sunday.

Forecasters said hurricane conditions are expected to begin in portions of the hurricane warning area within the next few hours.

Fiona is a large storm. Forecasters said hurricane-force winds extend outward for 185 miles from the center of Fiona, and tropical storm winds extend outward for 345 miles.

Hurricane conditions and a dangerous storm surge will be possible in Canada starting tonight.

Hurricane warnings continue for Nova Scotia from Hubbards to Brule, Prince Edward Island, Isle-de-la-Madeleine and Newfoundland from Parson’s Pond to Francois.

Tropical storm warnings are in effect for St. Andrews, New Brunswick, to west of Hubbards, Nova Scotia; west of Brule, Nova Scotia, to Cap Madeleine, Quebec; Anticosti Island; Sheldrake, Quebec, to north of Parson’s Pond, Newfoundland; Boat Harbor to Hare Bay, Newfoundland and from Francois to St. Lawrence, Newfoundland.

A tropical storm watch is in effect from north of Boat Harbor, Newfoundland, to West Bay, Labrador.

The rest of the tropical Atlantic was also busy, with Tropical Storm Gaston approaching the Azores islands in the northern Atlantic, Tropical Storm Hermine forming in the east Atlantic, Tropical Storm Ian in the Caribbean and another tropical wave.

The only other storm to impact the U.S. is Ian, which is forecast to strengthen to a major hurricane next week and target Florida.