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P.E.I. Thanksgiving's foul weather in photos

A storm that hit the Maritimes Thanksgiving Monday had most Islanders hunkered down indoors, but a few hardy souls did venture outside to record the weather for posterity and shared their adventures via social media.

Winds peaked Monday at 96 km/hr in East Point

Sara Fraser · CBC News ·
Sarah Jay sent CBC this photo of flooding at a small wharf at Bayside Campground in Oyster Bed Bridge Monday. (Submitted by Sarah Jay)

A storm that hit the Maritimes Thanksgiving Monday had most Islanders hunkered down indoors — although some were without electricity for much of the afternoon and into the evening. 

A few hardy souls did venture outside to record the weather for posterity and shared their adventures via social media. 

Fallen branches like this one on North River Road in Charlottetown took down power lines across P.E.I. Monday. (Patricia Bourque/Twitter)

As of 7 p.m. AT, East Point clocked the strongest winds of any other Island locale, with winds peaking at 96 kilometres an hour. North Cape saw 89 km/hr and Charlottetown wasn't far behind at 86 km/hr, said CBC meteorologist Kalin Mitchell. 

Environment Canada will officially tally rainfall amounts when the storm has abated, but we did get an unofficial report from Facebook. 

The rain guage at Erica MacIntyre's place in Cardigan, P.E.I., mid-afternoon Monday. (Erica MacIntyre/Facebook )

Forces at work

What brought on this memorable-for-the-wrong-reasons Thanksgiving storm?

"A slow-moving cold front moving in from the west this weekend tapered into residual moisture left by the dissipated Hurricane Matthew," Mitchell tell us. "The combination allowed a rapidly strengthening low pressure to develop and move past just off the coast of Nova Scotia."

"Think of this like a nor'easter...except instead of heavy snow and strong winds, it's heavy rain and strong winds," Mitchell added. 

What the future holds

High and gusty winds will slowly diminish overnight and Tuesday morning, Mitchell said. 

Trampolines across the Island became airborne in winds that gusted to nearly 100 km/hr. (Submitted by Stacey Ostridge)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sara Fraser

Web Journalist

Sara has worked with CBC News in P.E.I. since 1988, starting with television and radio before moving to the digital news team. She grew up on the Island and has a journalism degree from the University of King's College in Halifax. Reach her by email at [email protected].

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