[ISL] "P.E.I. potato growers welcome rainfall"

[rfmcdonald]

The Guardian of Charlottetown's Eric McCarthy tells about Prince Edward Island's drought, something just beginning to hit by the time I left. Apparently the west was particularly badly hit.

Prince Edward Island might be small, but it can offer up a mixed bag of weather at different places in the province at the same time. Just ask a potato grower.

St. Louis and area grower, Francis Shea, said the extreme western part of the province suffered through a very dry summer.

“The O’Leary area was getting rain; they were getting rains in the evening and we never got a drop up here,” he said.

That changed on Wednesday when the whole province got a generous soaking from Mother Nature.

“The Island’s small, but she’s got some weird weather patterns,” Shea acknowledged. He noted the O’Leary area is normally drier than the tip of the province, but that’s not the case this summer.