Hurricane Matthew remnants soak P.E.I.

It was a blustery Thanksgiving Monday on P.E.I., but the stormy weather was not a record breaker.

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The weather, which developed out of the remnants of Hurricane Matthew, grew progressively worse as you travelled east in the province.

Western P.E.I. got between 30 and 40 millimetres of rain, and there was about 70 mm in Queens County. Murray River recorded the most rainfall at 93 mm.

The highest recorded wind speed in the province was at East Point, where the peak gust was 106 km/h.

By Tuesday morning, thousands of people in the province were still without power, after wind knocked trees down into power lines.

While the weather seemed severe, it was not a record breaker. The rainfall record for Oct. 10 was set in 1967 when a total of 106.4 mm fell on P.E.I.

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