Environment Canada today is predicting mix of weather today, with an overcast morning, sun breaking through later, and cool but light northwest winds.
On P.E.I. today, early morning temperatures ranged from a high of 9.0 at East Point, to a low of 4.6 in Maple Plains.
The Confederation Bridge is open to all traffic today and flowing smoothly with no wind advisories.
All flights into and out of Charlottetown Airport are showing to be on time.
WEATHER TODAY:
Cloudy with a good chance of showers early this morning. Overcast for most of this morning, then clearing trend later this afternoon.
TEMPERATURE: Mostly single digit all day, maybe briefly reaching 10 mid afternoon.
WIND: Becoming northwest, medium, this morning.TEMPERATURE: Mostly single digit all day, maybe briefly reaching 10 mid afternoon.
TONIGHT’S PREDICTIONS:
Clear this evening, then becoming partly cloudy with a chance of showers overnight.
TEMPERATURE: Down to around 3.
WIND: Becoming southwest, gusting to 40 this evening.
TOMORROW’S FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY , OCTOBER 18:
A mix of sun and cloud with a medium chance of showers early in the morning.
TEMPERATURE: High briefly reaching 14.
WIND: Strong southwest wind gusting to 50, becoming northwest gusting to 50 in the morning.
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First light – 6:27 a.m.
Civil twilight – 7:02
Official Sunrise – 7:32 a.m. (One week ago it was 7:23 a.m.)
Official Sunset – 6:24 p.m. (One week ago it was 6:37 p.m.)
Civil twilight ends – 6:54 p.m.
Last light – 7:29 p.m.
Moon – The moon rose today at 4:54 a.m., and will set late this afternoon at 5:46 p.m.
The official length of daylight today is 10 hours, 52 minutes.
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The highest temperature on record for Oct. 17 on P.E.I. is 21.7 set in 1947.
The lowest temperature on record for this date is -3.0 set in 2000.
For Oct. 17on P.E.I., the average high is 11.6.
Average low for this date is 3.6.
The hot spot in Canada this morning was at Kamloops, B.C., where it was 16.6.
The coldest spot anywhere in Canada early this morning was at Eureka, Nunavut, where it was –27.7.
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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.
