Climate and Weather
Pic 1: A raised building to avoid future flooding.
In Charlottetown, and basically all of Prince Edward Island, the climate is temperate. Their temperature ranges from 20º-30º C, but so far it's 26.5º C. The growing season starts when there is no frost anymore and that's usually around the middle of May until around the same time in October. Their climate type is continental and the main factors that would create that would be the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the coastal area that it lies in and the ocean. This makes them have longer winters, a lot of rainfall, a gradual uptake to Spring and a summer that's just right! In the winter seasons, their weather is warmer than inland cities and they're less severe because of the warm and moist air that rises from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Their annual amount of snowfall is around 312 cm (123 in) and their annual amount of precipitation is 880.4 mm, which is a lot! The great amounts of precipitation are due to their costal area that Prince Edward Island lies in, the North Atlantic Stormtrack zone. This causes Charlottetown to receive around one out of three days of rainfall, but luckily they are not affected by the lingering fog that their neighboring provinces experience. During spring, the ocean waters are still usually cold so bouncing back up to a warmer temperature is a steady process. Lastly, in the summer time they have nice mild weather and their daytime temperatures gets down to about 22.5º C but they can also get as high as 32ºC. The temperatures aren't too hot because of the cool moist air from the ocean that brings them down. There hasn't been any severe weather that was worth recording, but storms are a problem.
Climate change, in the form of Global Warming, is something that concerns the future of Charlottetown. With temperatures getting warmer every year, the sea level rises as well. Studies have predicted that Charlottetown should get ready for the sea level rise as they will be affected by it considering that the city is right by the water. Some areas in Charlottetown will be impacted by flooding, which would be devastating to the city's people, buildings, economy and everything in general. Charlottetown has prepared for this by getting developers to build in the areas that flooding will potentially strike. The developers had to elevate the buildings above the 4.29m geodetic level of land so that if there is flooding in the future, it wouldn't affect Charlottetown (Refer to Pic. 1 on the top left corner). Below is a climate graph of Charlottetown.
Climate change, in the form of Global Warming, is something that concerns the future of Charlottetown. With temperatures getting warmer every year, the sea level rises as well. Studies have predicted that Charlottetown should get ready for the sea level rise as they will be affected by it considering that the city is right by the water. Some areas in Charlottetown will be impacted by flooding, which would be devastating to the city's people, buildings, economy and everything in general. Charlottetown has prepared for this by getting developers to build in the areas that flooding will potentially strike. The developers had to elevate the buildings above the 4.29m geodetic level of land so that if there is flooding in the future, it wouldn't affect Charlottetown (Refer to Pic. 1 on the top left corner). Below is a climate graph of Charlottetown.