Hurricane Fiona made a multi-week trek through the Caribbean, western Atlantic and eastern Canada in mid to late September. The storm drenched parts of the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic before bringing record low pressures and wind gusts over 100 mph to eastern Canada.

S​torm History

A​fter battling wind shear and dry air, a tropical wave finally maintained enough thunderstorms to be classified Tropical Depression Seven on Sept. 14, when it was 800 miles east of the Leeward Islands.

I​t then strengthened to Tropical Storm Fiona less than 12 hours later that night.

F​iona's center moved directly across the island of Guadeloupe on Sept. 16, bringing . Melville Hall Airport on Dominica, just south of Guadeloupe, picked up as Fiona passed through.

F​iona became the third hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season on Sept. 18, a few hours before its center made landfall on the southwestern tip of Puerto Rico.

At least from Fiona. More than two dozen rain gauges reported over a foot of rain on the island, according to USGS data.

F​iona may have set a 24-hour rainfall record for Puerto Rico, which was in Toro Negro Forest.

In addition to the flooding rainfall, h​igh winds downed trees blocking roads and to all of Puerto Rico Sunday.

were reported in several locations, particularly in southern Puerto Rico. A wind gust to 98 mph was measured at Samana El Catey, Dominican Republic, early Monday afternoon.

S​ee the link below for more details on the flooding and damaging wind impacts Fiona has caused in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

(​MORE NEWS: Fiona Slams Puerto Rico)

(Blue icons represent flood reports from Fiona in Puerto Rico.)

F​iona brought high winds and heavy rain to the Turks and Caicos on Tuesday.

Fiona tracked west of Bermuda early Friday. Wind gusts up to 93 mph were clocked in Bermuda as it passed by.

O​ne of Canada's Strongest Storms

The Canadian Hurricane Center wrote, "This storm will be a severe event for Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec."

It could even be one of the region's strongest storms in modern records.

, which if verified could set a new record for Canada. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said pressures were deep into the 930s as Fiona moved through Nova Scotia on the morning of Sept. 24.

Canada's current all-time low pressure record, 940.2 millibars, was set in St. Anthony, Newfoundland, on Jan. 20, 1977. David Roth, senior branch forecaster at NOAA's Weather Prediction Center, found most of these Atlantic Canada low-pressure records were set in , as the region is frequently hammered by intense storms that time of year. have also be broken in parts of Nova Scotia, according to data compiled by Roth.

Lower pressure typically means higher winds.

Several provinces saw wind gusts over hurricane force early on Sept. 24.

Fiona made landfall over eastern Nova Scotia early Saturday and is plowing through eastern Canada. A wind gust was measured near Beaver Island.

Hurricanes and their remnants aren't uncommon in Atlantic Canada.

In 2019, the remnant of Hurricane Dorian raced across Nova Scotia, downing trees and power lines, damaging homes and wringing out flooding rain and producing damaging coastal flooding.

In 2010, Igor raked Newfoundland as a Category 1 hurricane, washing away bridges and other long stretches of roads in what was considered the most damaging tropical cyclone to strike the island in the modern era, according to the Canadian Hurricane Center.

And in 2003, Hurricane Juan plowed north into Nova Scotia at Category 2 intensity damaging thousands of homes, businesses and trees in what was considered the worst storm to strike the provincial capital of Halifax since 1893.

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