The Telegram

The blizzard that pounded central Labrador yesterday was close, for some too close.    Are we next? Will it be a bad winter?     David Lacey recently wrote in with this observation and question about the upcoming ...

Nine-year-old Margaret Roberts was captivated by what she saw in the sky over the French Cross in Morden, N.S. on Sunday.  The true sun is on the left; the bright light on the ride-hand side of the photo is a sun dog.    The ...

Weather is my job, but it is also my passion and maybe that’s why I love to hear from you when something I write strikes a chord.   It warms my heart to see that so many of you enjoy and connect with my stories about ...

It happens every year. Our awesome autumn weather transitions to winter.  I don’t mind it at all, but I could be in the minority.   Many of you are already asking me what I think our winter might be ...

Thanksgiving is already behind us and the next time we blink, it’ll be Christmas. Will there be snow on the ground Christmas Day? I get that question a lot. Most people tell me that they would like snow for Christmas and ask that I turn off ...

It might have been lost in the excitement over Teddy, but fall arrived at 10:30 a.m. ADT/11:00 a.m. NDT last Tuesday.  I think you’ll agree that the first weekend of the new season was quite lovely. Today, it feels like summer never left. ...

Nature is amazing.  Grandma believed that if you looked closely enough, you could find all sorts of signs of changing weather conditions.  When it came to short-term forecasting, Grandma had the magic touch. For long-term or seasonal ...

Tuesday morning, frost advisories were issued across the region. It wasn’t the first time. Last Saturday morning, many gardens from one end of Atlantic Canada to the other had been kissed by an early fall frost.   Ken ...

I’ve always loved to write.  I was told early on that it’s easy if you write about what you know. Today, that’s not entirely the case.   I don’t know very much about persimmons. A while back, ...

“When it rains, it pours.” As a meteorologist, I know this is not always the case – it can rain lightly.   I do love the old expression and it’s been around for a very long time.  It’s ...