Description: The scenic coast of Peggy's Cove was slammed with crashing waves on the night of Sept. 15, with the worst yet to come.
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00:00 Waves are increasing in size here at Peggy's Cove, right to the south of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
00:05 And this is all ahead of Hurricane Lee.
00:07 Maximum sustained winds are at 80 miles an hour and it's moving north at about 20 miles an hour.
00:12 And they come in and set.
00:13 When the big waves are coming, they're overtopping the rocks here on Peggy's Cove,
00:17 a beautiful area here on the southern coast of Nova Scotia.
00:20 And it looks like Lee is going to be heading toward the western tip of Nova Scotia tomorrow,
00:24 but it's beginning to transition to an extra tropical cyclone.
00:27 And with that, the wind field is expanding dramatically with this storm system.
00:31 And that's also going to make the storm surge and the coastal flooding that much more widespread.
00:36 I think about a four to six foot storm surge seems reasonable across the southern coast of Nova Scotia,
00:41 especially to the west of Peggy's Cove, even further west toward Yarmouth.
00:46 Certainly kicking into that big storm surge and different than a usual hurricane,
00:49 where the storm surge hugs the inner eyewall of the hurricane.
00:52 With this one, the wind field is expanding and some of the stronger winds are going to be found
00:56 well removed from the center.
00:58 And that's why the storm surge and that coastal flooding is going to be removed from the center of this cyclone as well.
01:03 And then I expect as the wind shifts to a westerly direction, that that water will pile up into the Bay of Fundy.
01:09 High tide is about 2 a.m. on Saturday night.
01:11 And with that, there's likely going to be flooding around the periphery of the Bay of Fundy,
01:15 where the largest tides anywhere in the world are found.
01:18 And that's because of a seiche effect, where it's sloshing like a bathtub.
01:22 And that is all modulated by the oceanic tide.
01:25 And that's going to be extreme tomorrow with a full moon and possibly some flooding storm surge around the Bay of Fundy as well.
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