Hurricanes miss Nova Scotia, but so does rain

Atlantic Canada is halfway through this year's hurricane season and Nova Scotia has escaped unscathed so far.

There have been 11 named storms, with four hurricanes and one major hurricane, said Bob Robichaud, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. 

"Most of these storms have been fairly weak, we had a landfalling Hurricane in Florida with Hermine. But Hermine, unfortunately for people who were hoping to get rainfall in southwestern Nova Scotia, we didn't get much out of Hermine."

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"Gaston was probably the strongest storm so far this season, but Gaston stayed well offshore," said Robichaud. 

He also expects the lack of rain to continue in drought stricken parts of Nova Scotia for at least for another week. Robichaud said a few millimetres of rain will hit the province on Sunday and Monday but it won't be enough to refill any dry wells. 

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"There's nothing really in the cards in the foreseeable future for any kind of major rainfall that would give us the really good dousing of rain that we would need." 

Still not out of the woods

Atlantic Hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. 

Robichaud said it's hard to determine what the rest of the season could have in store for Nova Scotia. 

Meteorologists are monitoring tropical storm Karl, which is currently in the Atlantic. Robichaud said that storm could become a hurricane as early as mid-week, but it's still far too early to tell if that storm will have any impact on Canada.