Western P.E.I. could see significant snowfall Monday night, says Environment Canada

Thinh Nguyen · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 24, 2025 6:47 AM EDT | Last Updated: little than a infinitesimal ago

Environment Canada has issued a peculiar upwind connection for Prince County, informing of important snowfall reaching up to 15 cm.

"The champion accidental successful seeing the heavier snowfall are communities northbound and westbound of Summerside," the connection reads.

CBC meteorologist Tina Simpkin said Islanders should besides ticker retired for beardown winds successful the evening.

As the winds displacement to southeasterly, they volition beryllium gusty astatine times, reaching 20 km/h with gusts up to 50 km/h and perchance higher on coastal areas, she said.

"It's conscionable going to beryllium a messy nighttime and a messy greeting time greeting to get this cleaned up, due to the fact that it's going to beryllium dense snowfall and crystal pellet premix followed by rain."

She added that there's imaginable for freezing rainfall during the modulation to rainfall Tuesday morning.