Weather - PEI,

Located at Dundas
Ontario
Canada

Canada's Garden of the Gulf is surrounded by sea, lying between the Northumberland Strait on the south and west and the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the north and east. With the oceanic influence, the onset of the seasons is delayed several weeks. Winters are rambunctious but, on the whole, milder than in most parts of Canada. Spring is late and cool. Summer is modest and breezy. As for fall, well, Islanders will tell you they favour this season most of all, except when it involves the occasional brush with a dying Atlantic hurricane.

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Summers [on PEI] are pleasantly cool. The July average temperature is about 18.5C, with daily highs normally in the low to mid-twenties. Maximum temperatures exceed 30C only once or twice a year and have never exceeded 37.8C (100F) at any official weather station on P.E.I.

Winter temperatures reflect the presence of sea ice, becoming colder later in the winter after the surrounding sea-water freezes. Bitterly cold temperatures below -18C occur on only four or five nights in any winter, and thaws can occur in all the winter months. Periods free from frost extend over 130 days between late May and early October, a duration which compares favourably with that north of Lake Ontario and is about a month longer than the growing season on the southern Prairies.

Measurable snowfalls are frequent over the long winter season from November to April. The Island is one of the snowiest parts of Canada. Charlottetown's 330.6 cm makes it the third snowiest city next to St. John's and Quebec. However, because the snow comes and goes throughout the winter, there is an appreciable cover for only about three-quarters of the snow season, which lasts from late November to April 20, a period of about 145 days.

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