Far North Atlantic

[CrazyC83]

I'm just curious about the geographical extent of hurricanes and how likely is a hurricane to hit land in the far north Atlantic, i.e. Greenland? How common are hurricanes in the water up there (not making landfall)? (Far North Atlantic in my view = north of 50°N latitude)

[terstorm1012]

Newfoundland gets them, somewhat more often than people think, but beyond that I believe they turn Extratropical.

Hybridstorm lives in the Maritimes, and could give us a more concise history

[HurricaneHunter914]

I beleive some tropical systems have made their way to Newfoundland before though right?

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

In 1995 Hurricane Luis made his way to off Southern Greenland before weaking to TS force (60 kt), and becoming fully extratropical.

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

I personally though have never found record of a hurricane causing large amounts of damage above roughly 55 degrees North.

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

One of the most North systems I've seen before finally dying, as an extratropical TS (35 kt):

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

Atlantic Canada has, on average about, three systems a year that pass off shore. Once every 6 years on average, SE Newfoundland or SE Nova Scotia are effected, though usually not by a direct landfall. Both Nova Scotia and New Foundland went about 20 years between hurricane landfalls, New Brunswick hasn't had a landfall in 36 years since 1969. We had Bob in 1991, but he was down to strong TS force system by then.