Mail – we still get mail, sometimes too much of it. It doesn’t come like it used to, with a handwritten address and a stamp in the corner; most of the correspondence is electronic now.  Years ago, mail kept people connected. Back on the farm, the old ...

While many say fall is their favourite season, it's not always a treat. Some years, the fun starts with a parade of tropical cyclones, then, without missing a beat, it swings into nor'easters season. -WSI - Contributed It's almost impossible to ...

In case you haven’t already heard, we have a Harvest Moon shining our way on election day.  Monday’s full moon will also be the full harvest moon this year. But if you check your calendar, you’ll see that it’ll still be summer. It won't be autumn—the ...

It's been a hectic week in the weather centre. Now with Larry in my rearview mirror, I thought I would turn things over to you.  Last Saturday – that seems like such a long time ago - I wrote about an annual dilemma that some of us face heading into ...

If it seems like we’ve been talking about Larry forever, there’s a good reason for that. Larry has made history as the longest-lived major hurricane in the Atlantic. Until yesterday, those honours belonged to Hurricane Dorian, who made landfall on ...

In the next 24 hours, tropical moisture rotating around the sprawling system southeast of Bermuda will merge with a frontal boundary approaching from the west. Tropical rain bands could serve up close to 80 mm of rain by Friday night. Want more ...

Dorian is a name Atlantic Canadians will remember for years to come, but we won’t be the only ones with memories of Dorian. Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic Category 5 Atlantic hurricane. It became the most intense tropical ...

Gerry Vrbensky came across this toothy grin at the Wildlife Park in Shubenacadie, N.S. Bighorn sheep are native to North America and are named for their large horns.  Did you know that a pair of horns could weigh as much as 14 kg? Want more weather ...

I take my weather seriously, I always have. After a busy week tracking Ida, breaking down rainfall totals and wind gusts, I feel it’s time to lighten things up a little.  It’s Labour Day weekend!   Many people see the first Monday in September as an ...

Tropical systems develop over the tropics. When they approach our coastlines, we expect warm, muggy weather. That is often the case, but not always. Weather systems never act alone; they are at the mercy of the other atmospheric system in the ...