The Journal Pioneer

I was thrilled to receive this yellowed Herald clipping from Janet. She found this little treasure in the bottom of an old trunk. A century-old Herald clipping sheds light on Cold Friday! Just before Christmas I received a lovely note from Janet. ...

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.  ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday I explained wind chill. ...