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Have a look at this week's wild temperature swings

There may not have been a lot of snow in Wednesday's storm, but there was a wild ride on the Celcius scale.

Over a 36-hour period, temperature was changing an average of a degree an hour

Kevin Yarr · CBC News ·
a thermometer is pictured in the snow.
Temperatures have been up and down in the past 36 hours. (Kevin O'Connor/CBC)

There may not have been a lot of snow in Wednesday's storm, but there was a wild ride on the Celcius scale.

Temperatures bottomed out at -17 C at 8 p.m. on Tuesday and peaked at 5 C at 5 p.m. on Friday, a 22-degree swing in 21 hours.

The ride didn't stop there, with falling off on the other side, dropping to -9 C at 8 a.m. Thursday, a 14-degree shift in 15 hours.

Snowfall could pass February average

Current total snowfall at Charlottetown Airport for this season is 187 centimetres, with more on the way Thursday night.

Despite the long hiatus in major snowfalls, dating back to early January, total snowfall could pass the end-of-February average by this weekend, due to an early start to the season.

CBC meteorologist Brennan Allen is predicting as much as 30 centimetres of snow with Thursday night's storm.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kevin Yarr

Web journalist

Kevin Yarr is the early morning web journalist at CBC P.E.I. Kevin has a specialty in data journalism, and how statistics relate to the changing lives of Islanders. He has a BSc and a BA from Dalhousie University, and studied journalism at Holland College in Charlottetown. You can reach him at kevin.yarr@cbc.ca.

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