Gusts up to 50 mph will buffet Maine this week as Hurricane Fiona barrels down on the Canadian Maritimes.
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for the entire state ahead of the storm’s arrival.
Fiona will begin lurching toward Nova Scotia late Thursday night and move out of the area toward Greenland and the Arctic by Saturday night, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Despite maintaining its distance from Maine, Fiona still will send gusty northwest winds our way, and those are expected to produce gusts up to 50 mph from the immediate coast all the way up to Fort Kent, according to the weather service’s Caribou office.
Those gusts will weaken somewhat over the remote woods near the state’s border with Quebec, with winds topping out around 40 mph.
The high winds have prompted the weather service to warn about the potential for downed tree branches and power outages.
Maine is currently not forecast to see much rain from the storm.
