weather

Remnants Of Matthew: A Natural Disaster

As discussed in my previous post, on Friday and Saturday, the situation with hurricane Matthew had changed.  A cold front…

9 years ago

Matthew’s Moisture: Grateful Or Not?

On Saturday, Hurricane Matthew began the day as a Category 2 hurricane near Hilton Head South Carolina.  During the day,…

9 years ago

September: Warm And Dry. No Hurricanes… Yet.

September continued the stretch of above normal temperatures across all three Maritime Provinces.  Furthermore, every major location had below normal…

9 years ago

August Was Warm: Very Dry In Southwest Nova Scotia

Summer in the Maritimes continued warmer than normal for most locations.  While some heavy showers allowed much of New Brunswick…

9 years ago

July: Generally Warm And Dry

Consistent with the rest of the globe, the Maritimes were warmer than normal in July.  In fact, while 2015 was…

9 years ago

June Was Close To Normal… How’s The Rest Of The Summer Shaping Up??

While there was some variability in the June weather, overall the Maritimes finished the month fairly close to normal.  Temperatures…

9 years ago

May Was Dry; Started Cool And Ended Warm: Now What About Summer?

Temperatures in the month of May ended up near normal across the Maritimes.  However, in general, the month started rather…

10 years ago

April: Started Very Wet; Ended Very Dry

The first two weeks of April were rather damp.  In fact, all but about 10mm of the total rain for…

10 years ago

Rather Normal March… Then April

After the mild January and February, March temperatures were on average very near normal.  While there was a bit of…

10 years ago

Good Friday: Bad Weather

In the Spring of the year, even warm air masses can bring wintry weather.  The ice cover in the Gulf…

10 years ago

February: Mild With Plenty Of Precipitation

February Summary February was 3 to 4C above normal. While the Maritimes received above normal snow totals for February, there…

10 years ago

Citizen Science: Community And Collaborative Precipitation Monitoring

Given the lack of manual snow observations, I helped establish CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain-Hail-Snow) in Atlantic Canada a few years ago,…

10 years ago