 The system then began accelerating east-northeast while continuing to slowly strengthen, passing offshore Atlantic Canada on November 24.The cyclone subsequently bombed, or strengthened quite rapidly, and accelerated east-northeast, becoming a hurricane-force storm in the far north Atlantic with a central pressure of by the afternoon of November 25 and peaking at by the morning of November 26.Slow weakening occurred soon afterward as the system slowed down and turned towards Iceland.