The Journal Pioneer

Last Friday, July 6, a cyclone formed off the Carolina coast. By Saturday, it had become a tropical depression and, by early Sunday, it was tropical storm Chris. The third named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is now a hurricane. Near ...

June is winding down and vacation season is gearing up. Most kids and teachers have been counting down for a while now.  I guess I did, too, but -  unlike many of my friends who lived in town - I was not going to a cottage or setting out on ...

What’s not to love about June? The sun is up before 5:30 a.m. and it doesn’t set until after 9 p.m. Sunrise and sunset times are one thing, but when it comes to darkness and light, we should take into account the many shades of ...

Astronomical summer officially begins for 2018 on the morning of Thursday, June 21 at 7:07 a.m. I thought I would share a few fun facts with you:  Contrary to popular belief, the earliest sunrise and latest sunset do not coincide with ...

It has been quite a week in the Weather Centre and in the gardens and fields across Atlantic Canada: two killing frosts were followed by a few near-record warm afternoons and then thunderstorms.  Let’s get back to the frost. When was ...

Clouds come in all shapes and sizes, and just when you think you’ve seen them all you come across this: cloud iridescence! That’s what Terry MacDonald saw June 4 high in the sky over Amherst, N.S. He wondered what it was. Cloud ...

And just like that it’s June. So far, June has served up record heat, rain, snow and a killing frost, and we’re only a few days in! But now that May is in the books, let’s take a moment to look back. Overall, temperatures across ...

May 30, while most of us were slathering on the sunscreen, residents of Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula were experiencing less-than-pleasant conditions. It’s not unusual for the weather across the Maritimes to be different from the ...

Alberto did not wait for an invitation. Hurricane season in the Atlantic is underway, thanks to the early arrival of Alberto. Alberto became the first named storm of the season early May 25, over the northwestern Caribbean Sea. From the beginning, ...

Weekends are always busy, especially in the spring. Last weekend, was a perfect gardening weekend. The rain even helped soften the soil so the goutweed came out a little more easily! I made my way to a few garden centres and I was not alone. One ...