 By September 28 , the storm began to struggle maintaining its intensity due to increasing shear and cooling sea surface temperatures ; around 1200 UTC that day , the NHC assessed Kyle to have reached its peak intensity with winds of 85 mph ( 140 mph ) . Several hours later , the barometric pressure of the storm decreased to 984 mbar ( hPa ; 29 @.@ 06 inHg ) , the lowest during its existence . Around this time , the hurricane began to undergo an extratropical transition as it approached Nova Scotia . By the end of September 28 , little deep convection remained around the center of Kyle . Buoys nearby the storm recorded seas in excess of 36 ft ( 11 m ) and hurricane @-@ force winds as it neared landfall . It was estimated that Kyle made landfall near Yarmouth , Nova Scotia around 0000 UTC on September 29 with winds of 75 mph ( 120 km / h ) . This marked the first time since Hurricane Juan in 2003 that a hurricane made landfall in Canada , exactly five years , to the day , prior . Shortly after landfall , the storm weakened below hurricane @-@ status and completed its transition into an extratropical cyclone . Throughout September 29 , the remnants slowed and the system attained frontal features . The following day the system moved over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence before being absorbed by another large extratropical cyclone . 
