The Guardian

That was quite a storm in eastern Newfoundland and Labrador! The weather has improved, but the system is still hanging around.     Most storms travel from west to east but not this one. The powerful nor’easter clipped the Avalon on ...

It’s cool today, and it’s going to get colder! The arctic pipeline is about to open across Atlantic Canada.     The air will be cold all week, but the wind will make it feel even colder; that’s called wind chill, and ...

Remember the polar vortex?    In the first two weeks of 2014, much of the continent weathered a cold snap of unprecedented proportions. A weather phenomenon known as the “polar vortex” shattered temperature records ...

While there’s still some snow on the ground in some places, I wanted to share an e-mail I received from an old colleague last week.   “These photos were taken beside a steep bank near Coldbrook, Kings County. The snow was ...

If you were to ask a child to draw a picture of the Sun, you would probably get something that looked like an orange – round and yellow. I’m not sure that most adults would do much different. That’s likely why Jack ...

And just like that, we are more than one-third of the way through meteorological winter.   While astronomical winter begins about Dec. 21, meteorological winter always starts Dec. 1 and wraps up at the end ...

Exactly one week ago, I started to watch an area of positive vorticity in the upper levels of the atmosphere.    By Monday, the energy had developed into a surface trough. On Wednesday, the system had intensified to become a ...

If you take the time to look around, you can find beauty in almost everything.    As Atlantic Canadians, we are no strangers to fog. There are many types of fog; we experience them all, at one time or another throughout the ...

Fall storms come in all shapes and sizes and, as we've just witnessed, with many types of precipitation.   The colder side of last weekend's weather event dumped close to 20 cm of snow over parts of northeastern New Brunswick, ...

Some people are very observant.  The other day, I got this email from Charles Thompson. He wrote:   “I enjoyed your column today on the length of the days. Most people do not realize that on Dec. 11th, the evenings start to ...