Auburn, PE

A period of very cold wind chills is expected.

An arctic airmass will combine with strong and gusty northwest winds to give bitterly cold conditions tonight. Windchill values of minus 35 to minus 41 are expected to develop later tonight and will persist into Saturday morning before beginning to moderate Saturday afternoon.

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Watch for cold related symptoms: shortness of breath, chest pain, muscle pain and weakness, numbness and colour change in fingers and toes.

Extreme cold warnings are issued when very cold temperatures or wind chill creates an elevated risk to health such as frost bite and hypothermia.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to PEstorm@ec.gc.ca or tweet reports using #PEStorm.