Wintry weather hits P.E.I. on April 4, 2022
A late-season blast of winter is affecting a lot of Prince Edward Island.
The low-pressure system is passing off the coast of Nova Scotia, shut sufficient to convey heavy, moist snow to jap and central Prince Edward Island, however usually sparing the western half of the Island with just a few mild snowfall.
The snow is forecast to step by step taper off from west to east later this night into the in a single day hours.
Snowfall quantities are very tough to foretell presently of 12 months because it’s a really moist snow as temperatures are close to or above freezing and the bottom is now a lot hotter.
Areas down east are most certainly to finish up close to 15 cm of snow earlier than the melting takes place.
5 to 10 cm is forecast for the remainder of jap and central Prince Edward Island, with native pockets that could possibly be increased. Because of the inclement climate, the Public Colleges Department introduced that colleges in jap and central P.E.I. will likely be closing early April 4.
As you make your method up west we’ll see quantities diminish from close to 5 centimetres to possibly as a lot as a coating on the western tip of the Island.
North to northwesterly wind gusts of 40 to 70 km/h will likely be in place throughout the afternoon and night, step by step easing in a single day however nonetheless a bit breezy for elements of the Island on the morning of April 5.
