The hot weather in the forecast for this week won’t help sustain the relief, but the showers we saw Sunday did knock the province’s fire weather index down to low in all three regions across the province — for now.
A hot and humid air mass is to hang over PEI giving us temperatures in the range of 27 to 29 degrees through most of this week.
The hot dry weather in July has seen the index jump at times to extreme or high.