HALIFAX \u2014 A weakened Hurricane Melissa is making for a wet and windy weekend in much of Atlantic Canada, with some areas warned of possible flurries as the storm weakens.<\/p>\n
Melissa was downgraded to a post-tropical storm Friday as it moved up the East Coast and further across the Atlantic Ocean. <\/p>\n
Officials at Environment Canada say that much of the Atlantic region should expect continued wind Saturday, but it is expected to die down overnight and into Sunday.<\/p>\n
Some eastern areas such as Cape Breton and parts of Newfoundland will likely continue to see rain and potentially even flurries Saturday as the storm recedes. <\/p>\n
On Friday, winds across the region gusted at an average of 80 kilometres an hour, with some areas recording gusts of 120 km\/hr. <\/p>\n
The rain fell hard and fast, with an average of 60 millimetres recorded across the region in just 10 hours. <\/p>\n
Residents in some Prince Edward Island municipalities, including Charlottetown, Stratford and Cornwall were set to send trick-or-treaters out tonight, as the Halloween festivities were postponed Friday due to the weather. <\/p>\n
Melissa made landfall in southwest Jamaica on Tuesday with wind speeds reaching 295 km\/h. The hurricane has been blamed for at least 19 deaths in Jamaica and 31 in nearby Haiti.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 1, 2025<\/p>\n
Emily Baron Cadloff, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HALIFAX \u2014 A weakened Hurricane Melissa is making for a wet and windy weekend in much of Atlantic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6763,49,48,83,44,1133],"class_list":["post-254844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-atlantic","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disaster","tag-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}