High winds in the forecast for all of P.E.I. on Sunday

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 19, 2025 5:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago

It volition beryllium a blustery Sunday for P.E.I. arsenic beardown winds are expected successful the precocious day and evening, according to Environment Canada and CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland.

This upwind volition interaction each 3 counties.

Scotland says a 40-to-70 km/h west-to-northwest wind volition make Sunday greeting and volition summation passim the afternoon. 

Winds are expected to scope 50 km/h connected Sunday evening. Peak gusts could scope from 70 km/h to 100 km/h. 

A beardown northwesterly upwind volition commencement to easiness aft midnight, but Monday greeting is expected to beryllium reasonably windy. 

These precocious winds whitethorn origin damage, Environment Canada says, and whitethorn flip escaped objects oregon origin histrion branches to break. It is recommended that Islanders unafraid escaped objects astir their homes up of Sunday's upwind warning. 

Motorists connected highways taxable to precocious winds should expect unsafe driving conditions and adjacent imaginable closures connected the Confederation Bridge.