Fierce Noel menacing New England, Canada

Hurricane Noel is about to become a powerful extratropical storm, losing its tropical engine but remaining a ferocious Atlantic storm with top winds of 80 mph. It is already battering the Atlantic coast, and threatens Cape Cod, and the rest of coastal New England this weekend, and is fated to go ashore in the Canadian maritime provinces. We'll see this one on the news.
Here's a link showing all the ships at sea, and which are in the storm's path. Click to zoom in and see the ships' names.
Here is the latest advisory. Here is the forecast storm track. And here is the satellite view. And here is the forecast for Halifax, Nova Scotia. Batten the hatches.

