UPEI launches fourth annual weather trivia calendar
UPEI’s Climate Research Lab has released its fourth annual weather trivia calendar.
The 2018 calendar is called “Some Weather We’re Having!” and is for sale at The Bookmark in Charlottetown, Murphy’s Pharmacies in the capital city and from the climate lab itself.
Co-authored by Don Jardine and Adam Fenech, the weather trivia calendar features 365 stories about real local weather events from across the Island over the past 250 years and their impact on the everyday lives of Islanders.
“There are so many stories in there,” said Jardine, climate station manager. “There are some sad ones and some funny ones. This year we have a focus on extreme rainfall events and on storms in the Greenwich area.”
The 2018 edition also features 12 full-colour P.E.I. weather photographs, stories of Prince Edward Island as told by the weather, information about extreme rainfall events and a history of storms in the Greenwich area.
“Because of the nature of the Island and the way that we live, we’re very affected by weather. Sometimes it keeps us at home or away from school, and sometimes it drags us to the beaches because it’s so nice,” said Fenech, director of the lab.
“But the weather really controls a lot of what we do and who we are. We say in our calendar, ‘Our weather is our story.’ It’s the stories around the weather that are so intriguing.”