The damp, dreary weather on Prince Edward Island over the past few weeks has been hard on some Islanders, both physically and mentally.
“Looking at data out of Charlottetown Airport, P.E.I.’s last meaningfully sunny day was back on Sunday, November 10,” says CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland.
This November has been warmer than normal so far and slightly wetter, Scotland said, noting that skies have been mainly cloudy to overcast over the last few weeks.
Cloudy skies on P.E.I. in November are the norm, he pointed out, with the sky being mainly cloudy to overcast 71 per cent of the time.
“I think it definitely does us good to get outside as much as we can, so the bad weather is certainly hard on that,” said Rebecca Taylor, who is a nurse.
She said she and her nine-month-old baby Noah have been missing a lot of their daily walks, so she was happy to be able to get out Thursday during a break in the drizzle.
Taylor moved to P.E.I. from Newfoundland a few years ago and says Prince Edward Island’s weather the past few weeks is all too familiar.
“It reminds me a lot of living in St. John’s again. We thought we kind of escaped that,” Taylor lamented.
