The jet stream is often dubbed a highway that controls the movement of our weather, but the weather is not always travelling at highway speeds and sometimes comes to a halt.  There is a strong ridge of high-pressure southeast of Greenland and a ...

It was calm, but not quite 100 per cent clear, when Jill Crossman was out with her camera in Mermaid, P.E.I., last week. She caught the still water and reflection off Freeman’s Pond and the high-level clouds rolling across the sky. Jill told SaltWire ...

While not everyone is welcoming more rain falling once again on the weekend, I’m sure most are grateful for the milder weather.    Temperatures have elevated into the high single digits to mid-teens across the region, and parts of Nova Scotia and New ...

Natural beauty is always on display in Atlantic Canada, but it has been much more vivid in the last couple of weeks. Vineeth Nayath Gopalan shared this picturesque photo of Northern Bay Sands in Northern Bay, N.L. I know we don’t want to wish away ...

Of all the weather-related folklore and phrases, April showers bring May flowers has to be one of the most well-known and popular ones.   I included that line at the end of a weather column earlier this week and then started thinking a bit more about ...

Something I was amazed to see during the solar eclipse was how many people flocked to our region from the U.S. and other parts of the world. Ed Robillard caught the first cruise ship of the season departing the Charlottetown Harbour from Stratford, ...

Wind direction is often important when it comes to weather.  A prime example of that has been this week – while some have been treated to unseasonably mild temperatures, others have been stuck closer to freezing, all due to the wind.   The good news? ...

We often see crowds like this at the beach in the middle of summer, but the solar eclipse earlier this week brought thousands of people into the path of totality. Rick Whitman shared this photo of the crowd at the Irving Eco-Centre in Bouctouche, ...

I’ve had more than a day to reflect on Monday’s total solar eclipse, and the best word I can use to describe it was amazing.  I had the date circled for quite some time – of personal interest but also because the weather was so critical. Somehow, we ...

Aside from that incredible moment of totality, one of the most anticipated parts of a solar eclipse is the so-called diamond ring effect. JaimeyLynn Gannon travelled to Miramichi, N.B., and caught this incredible photo of that effect. Beads of ...