Environment Canada is calling for today to be wet, warm and windy, with the temperature falling through the afternoon.
The Confederation Bridge today is currently open to all traffic but there is a warning that high winds might require restrictions for high-sided vehicles anytime up to noon today.
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 +8.1 at East Point, to a low of +4.5 in Summerside.
WEATHER TODAY:
Rain ending early this afternoon, then cloudy with good chance of showers. Fog patches dissipating early this afternoon.
TEMPERATURE: Reaching 9 for a few hours early, then dropping during the afternoon.
WIND: Southeast gusting to 80, becoming southwest gusting to 40 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:
Partly cloudy with good chance of flurries.
TEMPERATURE: Around –6.
WIND: Southwest gusting to 40, increasing gusts up to 70 late this evening.
TOMORROW’S FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 14:
Cloudy with a good chance of flurries.
TEMPERATURE: Around -2.
WIND: Southwest gusting to 70, becoming west, gusting to 50 in the afternoon.
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First light – 6:35 a.m.
Civil twilight – 7:07
Official Sunrise – 7:41 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 2:53 a.m, and sets this afternoon at 2:16 p.m.
The official length of daylight today is 8 hours, 45 minutes.
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The highest temperature on record for Dec. 13 on P.E.I. is 14.3 set in 2010.
The lowest temperature on record for this date is -18.7 set in 1982.
For Dec. 13 on P.E.I., the average high is 0.3.
Average low for this date is -7.6.
The hot spot in Canada this morning was next door at Malay Falls, N.S. where it was 11.2.
The coldest spot anywhere in Canada early this morning was at Lansdowne House, Ont. where it was –35.8.
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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.
