PEI·NewThe numbers are in, and August 2025 will go down as one of the driest in Prince Edward Island history, with rainfall ranging from 10 to 35 millimetres for most locations.August was a dry month indeed, with rainfall ranging from 10 to 35 mm for most areasCarolyn Ryan · CBC News · Posted: Sep 01, 2025 4:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: 22 minutes agoMost parts of Prince Edward Island have bone-dry soil after a month of extremely low rainfall. (Laura Meader/CBC)The numbers are in, and August 2025 will go down as one of the driest in Prince Edward Island history, with rainfall ranging from only 10 to 35 millimetres for most places.Normal rainfall for the month at the Charlottetown Airport recording station would be 96.3 millimetres, as calculated by Environment Canada for the period from 1991-2020. In contrast, CBC meteorologist Ryan Snoddon said Monday, the August 2025 total for that location was just 12 millimetres.”I was thinking that this must be the driest August on record, but I see in 2001, [the airport] picked up just four millimetres in August,” he said. This map generated by the CoCoRaHS weather mapping system shows how little rain most of Prince Edward Island got in August, with the exception of the 84.3 millimetres recorded in Glencoe, Kings County. (CoCoRaHS mapping system)”In general terms, August rainfall on the Island ranged from 10 to 35 millimetres for most [places], with some heavy pockets locally due to thunderstorms.”One such spot was Glencoe, near Vernon River in eastern P.E.I.’s Kings County, which recorded 84 millimetres of rain in August.”That was thanks to a thunderstorm that dropped 77 millimetres in one shot,” said Snoddon.This map shows the estimated rainfall for Prince Edward Island in June, July and August. (CoCoRaHS mapping system)Having these numbers allows for number crunching to calculate how dry the three traditional summer months of June, July and August proved to be on P.E.I.The seasonal rainfall total at Charlottetown Airport was 159 millimetres, which is just 59 per cent of the normal summer rainfall of 269 millimetres, Snoddon said. Elsewhere on the Island, volunteer station totals ranged from 120 millimetres to 190 millimetres, which is 50 to 70 per cent of the normal 230-270 millimetre range for the Island. Looking ahead, Snoddon said another dry week is on the way for the Island, with the next chance of showers not until the weekend.
Some places on P.E.I. got only half the usual amount of rain this summer
