Hurricane Juan
Juan - Halifax Video (8 meg - slow to load)
The eye of Juan made landfall between 12:10 and 12:20 a.m. ADT, Monday September 29, between Prospect and Peggy's Cove, NS (based on surface wind reports and radar images from Gore, NS, and Mechanic Settlement, NB).
Comparison of the areas of wind damage, radar imagery, and public reports of clear skies and calm winds, indicates that the diameter of the eye was 35-40 km across. The eye diameter decreased rapidly after landfall, as is custom.
Highlights
The highest winds in a hurricane are in the eastern side of the eyewall; these
winds in Juan passed directly over the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Juan was a category 2 hurricane at landfall.
The storm centre passed directly over the Confederation Bridge which joins
Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick (based on a comparison of the wind
reports from the anemometers on the bridge and at Summerside)
Wind gusts west of the storm track were half the values of those to the right
of its track (for example, winds at Amherst, NS, gusted to 72 km/h, while
at Charlottetown, PEI, they gusted to 139 km/h: these locations are 35-40
km west/east of the storm track, respectively)
Juan possibly remained at marginal hurricane strength as it crossed the Northumberland
Strait around 3 a.m. ADT