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Sherry Beaman said the snow had just stopped when she spotted the faint rainbow. She wondered if it was indeed a snowbow?

WEATHER U: No rainbows - or snowbows - from winter snows

Cindy Day
Published Feb 06, 2019 at 4 a.m.

Last week after the warm air was pushed out by a cold front, flurries started to fall in the colder air: that’s when Sherry Beaman spotted this lovely rainbow. She was surprised to see it because it was snowing at the time. ...

Shubenacadie Sam is getting ready for his time in the spotlight when he makes his annual prediction to the end of winter. Sam will greet the crowd at the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park at 8 a.m. on Tuesday to see if he spots his shadow.

WEATHER U: More winter? Grandma says, ‘Let the rodents make the call!’

Cindy Day
Updated Feb 01, 2019 at 10:12 a.m.

Have you seen the movie Groundhog Day? It’s a 1993 comedy in which Bill Murray plays the role of a weatherman who finds himself inexplicably living the same day over and over again. I can relate – on a few ...

Snow, followed by rain then a flash freeze made a mess of the roads in much of Atlantic Canada last week. This photo - taken by Tracy Rector in Saint John N.B. - certainly confirms that!

WEATHER U: Getting colder in a flash!

Cindy Day
Published Jan 30, 2019 at 6 a.m.

It’s not easy to write this without saying, “When I was young…” Years ago, winter was winter. It got cold and, for the most part, stayed cold until spring arrived. Since the 1990s, the weather patterns have ...

One in a million! This photo was taken by David Shanks at about 6:30 in the morning over Sea Otter Cove, on the north west tip of Vancouver Island, B.C.

WEATHER U: Lucky to capture this rare rainbow

Cindy Day
Published Jan 25, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Conversation is essential and asking questions is the best way to get things started. I recently received a lovely email from a reader who shared an intriguing photo and wondered about it. John is an oceanographer – who apparently looks up, ...

If all of Sunday's rain was snow, how much snow would it be? - Kelly VanDellen

WEATHER U: How much snow would that rain be? Time to do some math

Cindy Day
Published Jan 23, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Winter storms come in all shapes and sizes and, as we’ve just witnessed, with many types of precipitation. The colder side of the weekend Nor’easter dumped as much as 60 cm of snow over New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula, while ...

Barry Burgess came across beautiful hoar frost on the vegetation while cross-country skiing near Earltown, N.S. Barry says "you know it's cold when you see hoar frost in the ditches."

WEATHER U: Fabulous frost

Cindy Day
Published Jan 18, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Certain weather conditions can be a little bit like baking a cake: you need all the right ingredients for things to turn out! Earlier this week, a cloudless sky, a windless night and relatively high humidity came together to produce a work of art ...

Steam rising off the water on a cold January day... not uncommon. A winter waterspout... priceless. Gloria Nickerson-Brown spotted the spout last weekend in Beaver Harbour, N.B.

WEATHER U: Cold spin over the water in Beaver Harbour, N.B.

Cindy Day
Updated Jan 16, 2019 at 9:09 a.m.

Have you ever seen a waterspout? They’re pretty amazing. Despite the name, a waterspout is not filled with water from the ocean or lake - it reaches down from a cumulus cloud. The water inside a waterspout is formed by condensation in the ...

Here's a look at last Tuesday's "warnings" map. You'll notice the edges of the warning zones coincide with the county lines.

WEATHER U: A word about warnings

Cindy Day
Published Jan 11, 2019 at 6 a.m.

The midweek storm was a doozy. It soaked Nova’s Scotia eastern shore region with more than 75 mm of rain; dumped close to 50 cm of snow in the Mirami ...

Ice on the rocks. You can visit the Bay of Fundy many times and never see the same thing. During a recent hike, Philip Capstick and his dog Sandy came across these stunning spikes of ice caused by our ever fluctuation temperatures.

WEATHER U: Why damp days feel colder

Cindy Day
Published Jan 09, 2019 at 9:12 a.m.

Yesterday I explained wind chill. ...

The polar vortex has been known to become displaced - sinking southward - taking a bitter blast of winter with it. - WSI graphics

WEATHER U: Pondering the polar vortex

Cindy Day
Published Jan 04, 2019 at 6 a.m.

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 on both sides of the ...

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