The Journal Pioneer

One week ago today, we bid farewell to winter and welcomed in the new season. That alone is exciting, but this year was special – the vernal equinox was greeted by a lovely full moon. The full moon in March carries a few names, but on the farm, ...

March can serve up all kinds of ice:  black ice, freezing rain, ice pellets, ice fog… Earlier this month, I received an email from Darrell Beaver about some ice he found in his dog’s water bowl. That’s not uncommon, but the ...

I get a lot of mail. These days most of it is email, but every now and again, a letter is delivered to my office. I love it. That happened on Monday. The letter came from Nicolaas DeVries of Clementsport, N.S. In his letter, DeVries pointed out ...

Last week I got an email from David Brown. He was curious about a common meteorological term used by many and asked if I could explain it. The term in question is “probability of precipitation” (POP) or “chance of ...

The other day Betty Meredith posted a stunning photo on my Facebook page. That’s not unusual; Betty has an amazing eye for photography. A question accompanied the photo. Betty wanted to know what the soft vertical band of colour was in the ...

What a photo!  You have to admit those are very impressive clouds.  I have seen clouds like this before, but only in the summer or early fall.  These clouds were spotted over Grand Manan Island, N.B., in February and I’m hearing ...

They don’t appear very often but when they do, they get everybody talking – snow rollers! A snow roller is a fairly rare meteorological phenomenon where snowballs are formed naturally as chunks of snow are blown along the ground by ...

It was not warm yesterday, but it’s even colder today.  The dome of arctic air that’s been parked west of the region is snuggling in a little -  that means the cold is about to bottom out!      As accurate as ...

Many of us are familiar with the term snow squall. ...

I love curious minds!  On Sunday, Loretta Googoo from Wagmatcook, Cape Breton, N.S., posted this on my Facebook page:   "Hello Cindy.  I have a question.  Maybe you can answer this.  We at the Cape noticed the ...