Environment Canada is calling for a mix of possible flurries with a chance of sun but below zero temperatures with strong winds are giving a biting cold wind chill.
With early morning temperatures around –7C and strong southwest winds gusting to around 60 kilometers per hour, the feel-like temperatures early today are around –17.
The Confederation Bridge today is currently open to all traffic but Northumberland Ferries has canceled crossings today until further notice.
All flights, however, arriving to and departing from Charlottetown Airport are showing to be on time.
On P.E.I. today, early morning temperatures ranged from a high of –3.5 at East Point, to a low of -8.4 in Maple Plains.
WEATHER TODAY:
A mix of sun and cloud with good chance of flurries.
TEMPERATURE: Rising slowly to reach 0 very briefly late this afternoon.
WIND: Southwest gusting to 70, becoming west gusting to 50 this afternoon.
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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:
Partly cloudy with good chance of flurries.
TEMPERATURE: Down around –11.
WIND: West gusting to 50, becoming southwest gusting to 60 this evening.
TOMORROW’S FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, DEC. 15:
Sunny.
TEMPERATURE: Up to –5.
WIND: Southwest gusting to 60, becoming west gusting to 70 late in the morning.
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First light – 6:35 a.m.
Civil twilight – 7:13
Official Sunrise – 7:48 a.m.
Official Sunset – 4:26 p.m.
Civil twilight ends – 5:01 p.m.
Last light – 5:39 p.m.
Moon – The moon rose early today, at 3:55 a.m, and sets this afternoon at 2:43 p.m.
The official length of daylight today is 8 hours, 39 minutes.
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The highest temperature on record for Dec. 14 on P.E.I. is 14.1 set in 2010.
The lowest temperature on record for this date is -21.7 set in 1976.
For Dec. 14 on P.E.I., the average high is 0.1.
Average low for this date is -7.8.
The hot spot in Canada this morning was at Kindakun Rocks, B.C. where it was 13.3.
The coldest spot anywhere in Canada early this morning was again at Lansdowne House, Ont. where it was –36.3.
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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.
