Environment Canada said that today will likely get up to +4C and stay that way all day, as showers are likely across the Island.
Flurries with accumulations up to 2 c.m. tonight, leading to super-cold Saturday with wind-chill, feel-like temperatures around -25
Confederation Bridge is currently open to all traffic with no warnings in place.
FlyPEI shows all arrivals and departures are on time today. Check the airport web site for updates.
On P.E.I. today, early morning temperatures ranged from a high of +3.0 at East Point to a low of 0.6.3 at Maple Plains.
WEATHER TODAY:
Mainly cloudy with very good chance of showers. Fog patches dissipating this afternoon.
TEMPERATURE: +4.
WIND: Becoming southwest, medium, this morning.
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LIVE STREAM of downtown Charlottetown to see weather conditions there, courtesy of the P.E.I. government and The Guild
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TONIGHT’S PREDICTIONS:
Mainly cloudy, with very good chance of rain showers early this evening. Flurries beginning this evening. Snowfall amount 2 cm in the heaviest flurries.
TEMPERATURE: Down to about -14, with wind-driven, feel-like temperatures around -25.
WIND: Becoming northwest, gusting to 50 this evening.
TOMORROW’S FORECAST FOR SATURDAY, FEB. 17:
A mix of sun and cloud with a medium chance of flurries in the morning.
TEMPERATURE: -1, with wind-driven, feel-like temperatures around -25.
WIND: Northwest, gusting to 50, becoming light in the afternoon.
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First light – 6:09 a.m.
Civil twilight – 6:44 a.m.
Official Sunrise – 7:15 a.m.
Official Sunset – 5:38 p.m.
Civil twilight ends – 6:09 p.m.
Last light – 6:44 p.m.
Moon – The invisible, nearly-new moon rose this morning at 7:45 a.m., and sets this evening at 6:33 p.m.
The official length of daylight today is 10 hours, 24 minutes.
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The highest temperature on record for Feb. 16 on P.E.I. is +6.1 set in 1972.
The lowest temperature on record for this date is –22.7 set in 2003.
For Feb. 16 on P.E.I., the average high is –3.4.
Average low for this date is -12.4.
The hot spot in Canada this morning was next door at Yarmouth, N.S. where it was +6.6.
The coldest spot anywhere in Canada early this morning was at Kugaaruk, Nunavut, where it was -49.5.
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Below is a live-stream camera view courtesy of Confederation Bridge to give a sense of weather conditions at that location.