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SPEEDY GONZALO


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Storm surge and pounding waves from Hurricane Gonzalo rolled onto the Southern Avalon on Sunday morning. This picture was taken by Clifford Doran in Trepassey. 

As far as Category 1 Hurricane passing through your region goes, Newfoundland made out pretty well from Gonzalo. The centre of the storm passed within 50 km of Cape Race early Sunday morning then quickly raced Northeast into the North Atlantic. Watch the 12 hour Satellite & Radar recap here.



With that track just offshore we were spared the worst of the Storm, which stayed out to sea. Inland, we did have some heavy rain, most of which fell in a 3 hour window early Sunday morning and some gusty winds, but it was nothing like they had over the Grand Banks.
Have a look at some of the numbers from Hurricane Gonzalo on Sunday.
(Note: The 158 km/h wind speed clocked at Hibernia was recorded 130 m above sea level) 

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OCTOBER WARMTH!
The other noteworthy numbers over Eastern Newfoundland yesterday were the record setting temperatures. Following Gonzalo we had that warm Southwest flow pump into the region, the Sun came out and we heated up.
-St. John's broke a 135 year temperature record on Sunday with a max temp of 21.3, that breaks the old record of 20.0 set back at the old downtown St. John's station in 1878. (Records began in 1874)
-Cape Race also set a new temperatures record, as the station hit 18.3, shattering the old record of 14.9 set back in 2000. (Records began in 1921)
-Terra Nova 18.7, Badger 18.4, Argentia 17.5, Corner Brook 17.2, Twillingate 15.6 & the Sagona Island 15.1 weather station all set new daily high temperature records for October 19th. 

Here is the complete Storm Summary for Hurricane Gonzalo, from the Canadian Hurricane Centre. 

Ryan

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