ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – It’s wet and windy, but southeastern Newfoundland is getting only a glancing blow from Hurricane Gonzalo as the eye of the storm passes south of Cape Race.
Gonzalo’s top winds have weakened to 140-kilometres an hour, with maximum onshore gusts in Newfoundland this morning reported at 80-kilometres an hour.
Heavy rain in downtown St. John’s also appears to be tapering off, and forecasters expect to downgrade Gonzalo to a post-tropical storm later today as it heads further out into the Atlantic.
At Cape Spear, N.L., the eastern edge of North America, dozens of runners faced driving rain as they started a 20-kilometre road race to Cabot Tower on Signal Hill.
The event is billed as one of the toughest courses of its kind, even without hurricane-like conditions.
In Trepassey, on Newfoundland’s southeast coast near Gonzalo’s offshore track, residents watched for any storm surge and possible wave damage.
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