Environment Canada today is predicting very different weather from yesterday, with sun and highs reaching around 13C.
For Thursday, however, it looks like rain overnight, then maybe flurries tomorrow afternoon as a bitingly cold, strong north wind blows in.
On P.E.I. today, early morning temperatures ranged from a high of 9.7 at East Point, to a low of 1.4 at North Cape.
The Confederation Bridge is open to all traffic today and flowing smoothly this morning.
All flights into and out of Charlottetown Airport are showing to be on time.
WEATHER TODAY:
Sunny, but increasing cloudiness this afternoon.
TEMPERATURE: Rising slowly but steadily to reach maybe 13 by mid afternoon.
WIND: Southwest, gusting to 40 becoming southeast 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:
Cloudy, with rain at times heavy beginning this evening, with amounts around 30 mm. Fog patches dissipating overnight.
TEMPERATURE: Around +3.
WIND: Southeast, gusting to 50 becoming northwest, gusting to 50 overnight.
TOMORROW’S FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, NOV. 23:
Rain at times heavy ending in the morning, then mainly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of flurries. Rainfall amount 5 mm.
TEMPERATURE: Falling to zero in the afternoon.
WIND: Northwest, gusting to 50, increasing to gusting up to 70 in the morning, then becoming west gusting to 50 in the afternoon.
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First light – 6:13 a.m.
Civil twilight – 6:50
Official Sunrise – 7:23 a.m.
Official Sunset – 4:34 p.m.
Civil twilight ends – 5:07 p.m.
Last light – 5:44 p.m.
Moon – The moon today is daytime only, rising at 10:04 a.m. and setting at 8:01 p.m.
The official length of daylight today is 9 hours, 11 minutes.
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The highest temperature on record for Nov. 22 on P.E.I. is 15.0 set in 1962.
The lowest temperature on record for this date is -13.6 set in 1978.
For Nov. 22 on P.E.I., the average high is 4.3.
Average low for this date is -2.3.
The hot spot in Canada this morning was at Sechelt, B.C., where it was 13.9.
The coldest spot anywhere in Canada early this morning was at both Rabbit Kettle Northwest Territories, and also again at Mayo, in the Yukon, where it was –37.9.
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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.
