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This was P.E.I.'s 2nd biggest snowfall of the last decade

As of Tuesday morning, monitors showed 64 centimetres of snow had fallen in Charlottetown since Friday.

Weekend storm brings Island's deepest snowfall since 2015's Snowmageddon

A person operating a snowblower through a deep drift of snow.
While the total snowfall is 50 to 60 centimetres, drifts can be much higher. (Laura Meader/CBC)

As of Tuesday morning, monitors showed 64 centimetres of snow down in Charlottetown since Friday.

That makes it the biggest snowfall since the legendary Snowmageddon of 2015and the second biggest of the last decade.

The only bigger one was Feb. 15-16, 2015, when 86.8 centimetres came down.

A map showing snowfall amounts and wind gusts for P.E.I.
(Jay Scotland/CBC)

One site in eastern P.E.I. recorded 83centimetres of snow, according to CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland. It was in Saint Georges, along the Boughton River just east of Cardigan.

Charlottetown Airport's official records for Monday's snowfall are missing, so the 64-centimetre figureis from a volunteer observer.

Snow events of more than 40 centimetres are unusual on P.E.I., and years can go by without one.

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