The temperature in parts of Prince Eduardo island on Tuesday was hot enough to burn a new record in the province’s registration books.
A temperature of 39.5 Celsius was observed at the Fox Island station of the UPEI Climate Laboratory near Alberton, and a recording device in Maple Plains in the center of PEI registered a maximum of 38.1 C.
Both exceeded the previous record of 36.7 of the most popular day of 36.7, set in Charlottetown on August 19, 1935.
“This is an alerting record to break, especially during this extremely dry period where the rain of the island is between 70 mm to 110+ mm below the average in the last two months,” CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland said.
“Climate scientists have been warning for years about greater periods of warm and dry climate, and we are certainly experiencing exactly that.”
UPEI instructor Don Jardine, who published in June Prince Edward Island ~ epekwitk ~ Climate Almanac: Climate Almanac and Climate of the smallest province in Canada, He believes that these high temperatures are the direct result of climate change.
“The heating of our climate continues. I mean, we know that last year, the average temperature in Charlottetown for the whole year was 7.7 and that was the highest average annual temperature for the Charlottetown area ever recorded.
“Then we see the symptoms,” Jardine said.
PEI’s location near the Atlantic Ocean has been crowded for a long time from the type of wild swings in the temperature that is seen more inland in Canada, he said.
But as oceanic waters heat up and the Gulf’s current, Jardine said the high extreme temperatures will become more common in maritime.
