Global News published this video item, entitled “Tropical Storm Henri soaks northeastern U.S., approaches Atlantic Canada” – below is their description.
Despite being downgraded from a hurricane, Tropical Storm Henri is still causing pain along the United States’ northeast coast, dropping heavy rain and storm surges as it approaches the Atlantic Canada.
The weather system was downgraded from a hurricane shortly before making landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island. In addition to the relentless rain, it is packing a punch with gusts of up to 113 kilometres-per-hour.
And as Ross Lord reports, Henri is not the only extreme weather event plaguing North America this weekend.
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Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
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