EASTPORT, Maine - A infrequent figurative tumult warning and hurricane look sharp were placed for faculties of the Maine strand steady Saturday as Hurricane Kyle roared boreal toward the region with a threat of conditions similar to unit of New England’session nor’easter storms.

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“Hurricane season isn’familiarily over, ” said Maine Emergency Management Agency director Rob McAleer. “It’s been a very active season.”

It was Maine’s first hurricane wait in 17 years, the National Weather Service said. Elsewhere in New England, a violent gale monitory was posted for Nantucket Island off the coast of Massachusetts in September 1996, according to the weather service office in Taunton, Mass.

Two to 4 inches of rain had already fallen along some coastal areas by midday Saturday, and the rage was expected to deliver an additional 2 to 4 inches, said Eric Schwibs of the weather service in Gray.

At 5 p.m. EDT, Kyle was centered about 315 miles west-northwest of Bermuda and 485 miles south of Nantucket, Mass., the National Hurricane Center uttered in Miami.

The storm had top sustained wind near 75 mph and became a Category 1 hurricane Saturday afternoon. It was moving north over the open Atlantic at 23 mph.

Kyle’s center was forecast to be near orient New England or the Canadian Maritime provinces late Sunday, the hurricane center said.

The hurricane center posted a hurricane watch from Stonington, at roughly the center of the Maine coast, to Eastport, on the border by New Brunswick, Canada. A tropical onset warning extended from Port Clyde, about 50 miles northeast of Portland, to Eastport. A tropical storm watch extended from Port Clyde to Cape Elizabeth, an area that includes Portland, Maine’s largest city.

A hurricane watch means wild storm stipulations, with winds of at least 74 mph, are possible within 36 hours. A of the tropics storm warning means conditions for that symbol of storm, with winds of 39 to 73 mph, are expected within the next 24 hours. A metaphorical storm watch means those conditions are likely within 36 hours.

Kyle could make landfall near Eastport, possibly late Sunday, the violent gale center uttered.

That would put the storm’s strongest wind in New Brunswick, rather than in Maine, which would get conditions more akin to “a garden variety nor’easter,” Schwibs said.

The government of Canada issued a hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning for southwestern Nova Scotia, and a figurative storm look sharp remained in reality for the rest of Nova Scotia and southwestern New Brunswick.

The bear service also issued flood watches because of the southern two-thirds of New Hampshire and southern Maine end Sunday evening.

McAleer said the storm’s biggest threat in Maine would be the potential for high waves and small stream flooding.

“We urge everyone to recompense close attention to weather warnings, and stay not present from some flooded roadways, or fast-running streams,” McAleer said.

The Coast Guard prepared crews and equipment for the storm and urged boat owners to secure their vessels in anticipation of high wind and seas that could run 10 to 20 feet high off brace.

Eastern Maine’s power company, Bangor Hydro-Electric, said it prepared according to in posse outages and planned to accept additional crews on duty.