Environment Canada is predicting a mix of weather today, with sun and cloud most of the day, with a small chance of flurries starting early afternoon.
Winds are expected to be from the southwest gusting to 40 kilometers per hour and temperatures slowly climbing to +3C by mid-afternoon.
It will likely be back to the deep freeze Saturday, with gusty northwest winds, highs at only -6 and nighttime lows in the minus double digits.
The Confederation Bridge is currently open to all traffic with no warnings.
FlyPEI shows all arrivals on time, but one departure is having a delay. Air Canada 7519 from Charlottetown to Toronto is showing a half-hour delay. Check the airport web site for updates.
On P.E.I. today, early morning temperatures ranged from a high of +1.8 at East Point, to a low of -1.6 at Maple Plains.
WEATHER TODAY:
A mix of sun and cloud with a small percent chance of flurries this afternoon.
TEMPERATURE: Up to +3 by around 2 p.m.
WIND: Southwest, gusting to 40, becoming west gusting to 40 this afternoon.
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Cindy Day, SaltWire Network’s chief meteorologist, will have the latest weather details throughout today at www.theguardian.pe.ca/weather as well as on Facebook and Twitter. Full video weather forecasts are available at 11:15 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
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LIVE STREAM VIDEO of downtown Charlottetown to see weather conditions there, courtesy of the P.E.I. government and The Guild.
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TONIGHT’S PREDICTION
Partly cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries.
TEMPERATURE: -7
WIND: West, becoming northwest gusting to 40 near midnight.
TOMORROW’S FORECAST FOR SATURDAY, March 17:
Mainly cloudy with a good chance of flurries.
TEMPERATURE: Steady near -6.
WIND: Northwest, gusting to 40.
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First light – 6:19 a.m.
Civil twilight – 6:54 a.m.
Official Sunrise – 7:24 a.m.
Official Sunset – 7:18 p.m.
Civil twilight ends – 7:48 p.m.
Last light – 8:23 p.m.
Moon – The moon rises this morning at 7:15 a.m., and sets at 6:25 p.m.
The official length of daylight today is 11 hours, 54 minutes.
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The highest temperature on record for March 16 on P.E.I. is +13.8 set in 1984.
The lowest temperature on record for this date is –17.0 set in 1993.
For March 16 on P.E.I., the average high is +0.9.
Average low for this date is -7.1.
The hot spot in Canada this morning was on Entrance Island, B.C. where it was +7.9.
The coldest spot anywhere in Canada early this morning was at Eureka, Nunavut where it was -44.8.
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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. Please click image to go live.
