Schools on P.E.I. are now closed for the day, after being on a one-hour delay.
All provincial government offices across the province will open atl 10:30 a.m.
Both Holland College and UPEI will open this morning at 10:30.
Vehicles are ice-covered this morning and roads are also ice covered and slippery as well.
Winds are still gusting strongly from the north but have moderated a bit from the gusts up to 80 that hit P.E.I. yesterday at supper time.
Environment Canada had kept its freezing rain warning in effect for Queens and Kings County this morning but ended both around 6:30 a.m. There are no weather warnings or statements in effect for Prince County today.
The Confederation Bridge is currently open to all traffic.
FlyPEI shows that Air Canada has cancelled both its early-morning flights out of Charlottetown to Toronto and Montreal. Check the airport web site for updates.
On P.E.I. today, early morning temperatures ranged from a high of +1.1 at East Point, to a low of -2.1 at Maple Plains.
WEATHER TODAY:
Freezing rain or snow, changing to flurries this morning. Snowfall amount 2 cm.
TEMPERATURE: +1.
WIND: North, gusting to 50, becoming northwest gusting to 50 this morning.
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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
Flurries, with amount around 2 c.m.
TEMPERATURE: -1.
WIND: Northwest, gusting to 50, becoming north gusting to 50 overnight.
TOMORROW’S FORECAST FOR SATURDAY, March 24:
Continuing with flurries, again with amount around 2 c.m.
TEMPERATURE: +1.
WIND: Northeast, gusting to 60.
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First light – 6:05 a.m.
Civil twilight – 6:41 a.m.
Official Sunrise – 7:11 a.m.
Official Sunset – 7:28 p.m.
Civil twilight ends – 7:58 p.m.
Last light – 8:33 p.m.
Moon – The moon rises this morning at 10:59 a.m., and sets at 2:24 a.m. tomorrow.
The official length of daylight today is 12 hours, 17 minutes.
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The highest temperature on record for March 23 on P.E.I. is +10.3 set in 1929.
The lowest temperature on record for this date is –15.2 set in 1989.
For March 23 on P.E.I., the average high is +2.1.
Average low for this date is -5.7.
The hot spot in Canada this morning was at the Sand Heads Lightstation
, B.C. where it was +6.1.
The coldest spot anywhere in Canada early this morning was again at Eureka, Nunavut where it was -42.7.
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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.
