PEI Weather: PEI Versus Snow Drifts?
So I was looking for the worst winter storm on PEI for this post and I found this story on the Weather Network - One of Canada's worsts blizzards was P.E.I. versus snowdrifts . So I couldn't resist. So from Monday, February 22 to Friday, February 26, 1982, 60cm of snow fell on PEI. At the time, the average snowfall per year was 285cm. Now, according to PEI Climate and Weather the current average snowfall is 290cm. For those of us who remember White Juan, you might be trying to remember how much snow fell during that storm. According to Saltwire , White Juan (February 2004) dumped an average of 74.4 cm of snow over 24 hours. There was even a snow storm in 2015 that dumped 86.8cm over two days. So why was a storm with much less snow more of an issue? The issues with this 1982 storm were the sustained 100km/hr winds after the snow came and the -35 degree temperature. This strong wind blew this snow all over the Island, led to horrible visibility, and understandably, a delayed
