The Journal Pioneer

I have mentioned this before, but it bears repeating: I love to get mail.   Earlier this week, I sat down to this intriguing tale from Christina Brown:  “Hi, Cindy.  Saturday, June 20th, three ...

Many of you have been asking what happened on Saturday in Nova Scotia.   The day got off to a very warm start – mid-twenties by midmorning. By early afternoon, temperatures had settled in the thirties and that’s when a ...

Some of you might be thinking, what, more cloud photos?  Yes, but I’d rather look at them as science lessons in the sky. Last Tuesday, I received an email from Cyndie MacKinnon. Attached were six incredible photos taken on Tuesday, June ...

I’ve been writing about clouds an awful lot these days. I can’t help it – you’ve been submitting magnificent photos of fairly rare cloud types.   This one caught my eye, as I’m sure it did Barb’s, while she ...

Last weekend, Cristobal become the third named storm in this very young Atlantic hurricane season. At 5 p.m. local time Sunday, the tropical storm made landfall over southeastern Louisiana. By Monday morning, the storm had been downgraded to a ...

Words are wonderful, but photos can tell quite a story. I get so many magnificent pictures from you and through them, you take us places we would otherwise not have a chance to visit. Some photos are taken in the middle of the night while most of ...

The other day someone asked me how I come up with column ideas every day.  I don’t.  Many of them come from you.  I get emails, snail mail, tweets and Facebook posts from every corner of Atlantic Canada. Some of them contain ...

They are often bright white; they can be grey or even quite dark, but how about pastel-shaded clouds? I didn’t see them, but many did. By early afternoon, I had received several lovely photos of a pretty pastel cloud. While the attached ...

When I moved to Atlantic Canada more than 20 years ago, I was impressed with the average person’s weather knowledge. I wasn’t here long before I realized the wind was quite often the headliner in a weather conversation. The other day, ...

Last weekend’s storm came through with 40 mm of rain, more than 30 cm of snow and wind gusts well over 100 km/h.  It was a powerful spring storm with a rapid drop in pressure - enough to be considered a weather bomb. I’ve been ...