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| Written by Reed Patrick Timmer | |||
| Friday, 26 September 2008 12:48 | |||
Tropical Storm Kyle is slowly intensifying to the south of Bermuda, with maximum sustained winds estimated at 60 mph with a central minimum pressure of 1000 mb as of the 2:00 pm advisory. While Kyle is expected to miss Bermuda to the west, tropical storm warnings are in effect for the island through Thursday given the large eastward extent of the wind field from the center. Kyle is expected to obtain hurricane strength over the next 24 hours with a peak forecast maximum surface wind of 70 knots before making landfall Sunday night in the Canadian Maritimes. Kyle is forecast to pass just west of Nova Scotia Sunday night, so the worst conditions will be experienced here as the storm will be racing north. Given this fast northward storm motion, the winds on the eastern side of the storm will be substantially stronger than the west. These recurving tropical cyclones also start to take on extra tropical characteristics as a upper-trough approaches from the west and the convection is sheared to the northeast, increasing further the discrepancy between the west and east sides of the storm. Based on this, hurricane conditions will likely be experienced across much of western Nova Scotia on Sunday night into Monday, not to mention the massive waves on the south facing coast. If I wasn't trying to graduate stat, I'd be on my way to Nova Scotia right now! 
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