The Telegram

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 ...

Last Thursday, I shared a letter I received from David Hutt, a Scouter with the 36th Halifax Scout troop. The Scouts had been on a hike in Long Lake Provincial Park. A few hundred metres in, the group came upon a small waterfall; that’s ...

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes a gust front.    It must have made quite an impression because John and Olive Spawn noted the exact time they spotted what looked like “a giant wave over the ...

When Karen Lindsay LeBlanc showed these pictures to her aunt, she encouraged her to send them to me.    The photos were taken in Winnipeg, Man., but Karen is a self-proclaimed East Coaster; all of her family is in New Brunswick and ...

It’s been more than a week since we returned to standard time. I hope your internal clock has been able to synchronize with the clock on the wall.   I can only speak for myself, but I love the extra daylight in ...

By now, most of us have seen our first snowflakes of the season.   Depending on where you live, it might have been cosmetic or perhaps more significant than that.  While everyone knows what snow is, I detect some confusion when it comes ...

Last week, a late-season hurricane named Zeta came for a visit. For the most part, the impact was minor as the storm stayed well off our coastline.   There was, however, a nice little pocket of snow on the backside of the system Friday ...