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Hurricane Sandy, a late-season Atlantic cyclone that threatens to be one of the worst storms to hit the Northeast in decades, slogged slowly northward on Friday after killing at least 41 people in the Caribbean.

On Friday, forecasters in Canada are warning that the so-called ‘Frankenstorm’ will be so huge its reach will be felt from southern Ontario to the Maritimes.

“Everyone in the Maritimes, certainly everyone is southern Quebec and eastern and southern Ontario should be monitoring this storm,” said spokesman Bob Robichaud at the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Halifax.

“I know it’s a big area but it speaks to the size of this storm. The storm will be a very huge storm by the time it gets close to here … It’s getting a lot of attention and deservedly so.”

Robichaud said it was too early to predict the strength of the winds or rainfall amounts for Canadian territory, but he said the latest computer models suggest powerful gusts and heavy downpours are on the way for Monday and Tuesday.

He said southwestern Nova Scotia was expected to see the worst of the storm, but that prediction could change in the days ahead, particularly if Sandy heads farther south.

Typically, large hurricanes like Sandy have been known to race up the coast and clip the edges of the Maritimes and Newfoundland, causing sporadic damage.

But this storm is different.

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