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Lobster pots sit on the wharf in the fog-shrouded town of Petty Harbour Monday April 29. Keith Gosse • The Telegram

Stuck with clouds, drizzle, fog each spring in Atlantic Canada? Here’s why

Each spring season it seems without fail there is a period of dull, dreary weather in Atlantic Canada. I’m not talking about those April showers, but days of clouds, rain showers – sometimes flurries, and drizzle. It’s often coined RDF – rain, ...

Updated a day ago |3 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Sunset for two in Peggys Cove, N.S.

Updated a day ago |2 min read

-Contributed/Simon B Pont (https://www.naturallightphotography.net)
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ALLISTER AALDERS: There are many holes in this phenomenon

Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |3 min read

Lloyd Gill said dozens of holes appeared on his lawn this spring and is left wondering what caused them. -Contributed/Lloyd Gill

WEATHER PHOTO: Salix discolor blooming in Florence, N.S.

Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |1 min read

ALLISTER AALDERS: Atmospheric blocking pattern influences weather into first week of May

Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |4 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Springtime walk in St. John's, N.L.

Updated Apr. 29, 2024 |1 min read

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Lloyd Gill said dozens of holes appeared on his lawn this spring and is left wondering what caused them. -Contributed/Lloyd Gill

ALLISTER AALDERS: There are many holes in this phenomenon

Most questions I receive and answer are about the weather, but a recent question not quite weather-related threw me for a bit of a loop. Lloyd Gill from St. John’s, N.L. wrote me this note: “This year, for the first time in the 38 winters we have ...

Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |3 min read

ALLISTER AALDERS: Atmospheric blocking pattern influences weather into first week of May

Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |4 min read

Wet wait
A Metrobus patron stands in a rain-covered bus shelter on Elizabeth Avenue Thursday as vehicles pass by in the miserable weather. Keith Gosse • The Telegram

ALLISTER AALDERS: As El Niño fades, La Niña is planning a summer revival

Updated Apr. 26, 2024 |4 min read

Sea surface temperature anomalies in the equatorial Pacific show colder than normal temperatures are starting the return. This will mark the transition to neutral conditions with La Niña expected to return this summer to fall. -Contributed/Climate Reanalyzer (https://ClimateReanalyzer.org)

ALLISTER AALDERS: Bright weekend; blocking pattern to turn weather unsettled next week

Updated Apr. 26, 2024 |4 min read

ALLISTER AALDERS: Easing into spring gardening while awaiting last frost

Updated Apr. 24, 2024 |3 min read

ALLISTER AALDERS: Sunshine to bookend mid-week disturbances

Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |4 min read

Featured Weather Snapshots

-Contributed/Simon B Pont (https://www.naturallightphotography.net)
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WEATHER PHOTO: Sunset for two in Peggys Cove, N.S.

Sunset for two, please! Simon B Pont is a natural light photographer with some great prints online and caught a pair of people enjoying this beautiful sunset from the Peggys Cove, N.S., lighthouse. It would appear it wasn’t busy when Simon was there, ...

Updated a day ago |2 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Salix discolor blooming in Florence, N.S.

Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |1 min read

-Contributed/Judith Brennan

WEATHER PHOTO: Springtime walk in St. John's, N.L.

Updated Apr. 29, 2024 |1 min read

-Contributed/David Powell

WEATHER PHOTO: Waxing gibbous moon in East Chezzetcook, N.S.

Updated Apr. 26, 2024 |1 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Sunset over Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Updated Apr. 25, 2024 |1 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Along the shores of Whycocomagh, N.S.

Updated Apr. 24, 2024 |1 min read

Featured Ask Allister

Wet wharf
Lobster pots sit on the wharf in the fog-shrouded town of Petty Harbour Monday April 29. Keith Gosse • The Telegram

Stuck with clouds, drizzle, fog each spring in Atlantic Canada? Here’s why

Each spring season it seems without fail there is a period of dull, dreary weather in Atlantic Canada. I’m not talking about those April showers, but days of clouds, rain showers – sometimes flurries, and drizzle. It’s often coined RDF – rain, ...

Updated a day ago |3 min read

ASK ALLISTER: What caused this line through the clouds?

Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |3 min read

This dark line across the clouds in Falmouth, N.S., appears to be a contrail shadow. -Contributed/Joan Alyward Mansfield

BEHIND THE WEATHER: Why are some clouds bright and others dark?

Updated Apr. 17, 2024 |3 min read

Dark clouds over the Cape Breton Highlands from Cape Smokey last summer. -Allister Aalders/SaltWire

ASK ALLISTER: Where did ‘April showers bring May flowers’ originate?

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |3 min read

ASK ALLISTER: What causes wind?

Updated Apr. 2, 2024 |3 min read

ALLISTER AALDERS: Weather’s connection to maple syrup production

Updated Mar. 19, 2024 |3 min read

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