The Journal Pioneer

If you were to ask a child to draw a picture of the Sun, you would probably get something that looked like an orange – round and yellow. I’m not sure that most adults would do much different. That’s likely why Jack ...

And just like that, we are more than one-third of the way through meteorological winter.   While astronomical winter begins about Dec. 21, meteorological winter always starts Dec. 1 and wraps up at the end ...

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 ...