The Telegram

Sunday, March 7, the sun came up over Lingan, Cape Breton, at 6:27 a.m. This Sunday, March 14, the sun will come up at 7:14 a.m. thanks to Daylight Saving Time. Maybe that will give more people a chance to admire some of the magnificent sunrises we ...

In the winter, snow is my preferred type of precipitation.  Growing up, we didn’t get a lot of rain in the winter.  If and when we did, I was not very happy about it: it made a mess of my beloved snow.   Last night, as a ...

Mom used to say, "the day was not wasted, if you learned something new." I recently received an email from Mike, whose mom was on the same page as mine:  “My momma always said there was no such thing as a stupid question... so ...

The weather knows no boundaries. Weather systems are free to cross provincial and international borders: a storm, regardless of where it visits, is still a storm - with wind, rain or snow.  Occasionally, storms or other weather events, have ...

Grandma always said that snow was "healthy!"  Growing up, I loved snow because it was fun.  Depending on the type of snow, I would spend hours either building a snowman, tobogganing or just making snow angels across the front ...

That was quite a storm. I certainly enjoyed the challenge of watching it mature.    I started tracking it as an area of upper-level vorticity (energy) on Monday, Jan. 25, off the coast of California.  It spun there ...

That was quite a storm in eastern Newfoundland and Labrador! The weather has improved, but the system is still hanging around.     Most storms travel from west to east but not this one. The powerful nor’easter clipped the Avalon on ...

It’s cool today, and it’s going to get colder! The arctic pipeline is about to open across Atlantic Canada.     The air will be cold all week, but the wind will make it feel even colder; that’s called wind chill, and ...

Remember the polar vortex?    In the first two weeks of 2014, much of the continent weathered a cold snap of unprecedented proportions. A weather phenomenon known as the “polar vortex” shattered temperature records ...

While there’s still some snow on the ground in some places, I wanted to share an e-mail I received from an old colleague last week.   “These photos were taken beside a steep bank near Coldbrook, Kings County. The snow was ...