Polar vortex bringing colder air to P.E.I. on Monday
Colleen Kitts-Goguen | CBC News | Posted: March 30, 2016 5:00 PM | Last Updated: March 30, 2016
There's a blast of colder air coming this way on Monday, dropping temperatures below normal
Don't put away the long underwear just yet — there's a blast of icy, Arctic air headed south on Monday, bringing below normal temperatures to the region.
As Kevin Boomer Gallant says, it's the dreaded polar vortex.
"Boy was that a word [we] didn't want to talk about the last couple of years, but it makes a rare for appearance for the start of April in much of central Canada and a little bit here in the Maritimes," says Gallant.
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But before the icy blast, temperatures will rise as high as 10 to 12 C by Friday, says CBC meteorologist Peter Coade, "keeping in mind that the normal is around 4 C."
It will be a lovely weekend on the Island, Coade says, with sunny skies and temperatures at about 8 C on Saturday and slightly cooler on Sunday. There may also be some showers on the way for Sunday.
However, starting off the week it's a different story, with early morning lows of -7 C Monday and -10 C on Tuesday, says Coade, with "the normal morning low being -4 and normal afternoon high +4. which would make the forecast ... some five to 10 C colder than the normal."
Even so, Coade says there is no need to panic about the polar vortex.
"It's a cute name and that, but it just means the cold air is shifting down a little bit farther south from the North Pole ... where it normally sits."
Coade says that while spring is definitely here — despite the cooler weather — "you might want to cover up any plants that you might have put in the ground."