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Canadian global model projection of 500 mb Geopotential Height & Anomaly Sunday night into Monday. Upper-level ridging is expected from central Canada to southern Greenland, but there will still be unsettled weather for some at the surface. -Contributed/TropicalTidbits.com

ALLISTER AALDERS: Bright weekend; blocking pattern to turn weather unsettled next week

The final weekend of April is upon us, and for most it’s looking great weather-wise. A ridge of high-pressure will serve up lots of sunshine to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. A general mix of sun and cloud is forecast for ...

Updated 4 hours ago |4 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Sunset over Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Updated 22 hours ago |1 min read

-Contributed/Ray Kujundzic

ALLISTER AALDERS: Easing into spring gardening while awaiting last frost

Updated a day ago |3 min read

A soft rake is an important tool for a spring yard cleanup.

WEATHER PHOTO: Along the shores of Whycocomagh, N.S.

Updated a day ago |1 min read

ASK ALLISTER: What caused this line through the clouds?

Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |3 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Paddleboarding under the Confederation Bridge near Borden-Carleton, P.E.I.

Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |1 min read

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Canadian global model projection of 500 mb Geopotential Height & Anomaly Sunday night into Monday. Upper-level ridging is expected from central Canada to southern Greenland, but there will still be unsettled weather for some at the surface. -Contributed/TropicalTidbits.com

ALLISTER AALDERS: Bright weekend; blocking pattern to turn weather unsettled next week

The final weekend of April is upon us, and for most it’s looking great weather-wise. A ridge of high-pressure will serve up lots of sunshine to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. A general mix of sun and cloud is forecast for ...

Updated 4 hours ago |4 min read

ALLISTER AALDERS: Easing into spring gardening while awaiting last frost

Updated a day ago |3 min read

A soft rake is an important tool for a spring yard cleanup.

ALLISTER AALDERS: Sunshine to bookend mid-week disturbances

Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |4 min read

With its theme of “Planet vs. Plastics,” today, Monday, April 22nd., 2024, is being celebrate as Earth Day across the nation. Earth Day is an annual event held on April 22nd., to demonstrate support for environmental protection, and since being first held on this date in 1970, it now includes a wide range of events and activities coordinated globally by Earthday.org for some one billion people in almost 200 countries world-wide. The 2024 theme aims to bring attention to the serious issue of plastic pollution and how it harms nature. Here on Saturday, April 20, 2024, City of St. John’s parks service worker Chris Hoddinott enjoys the sunshine and mild spring temperatures while he was weeding out and edging this flower bed following the past winter. An 11-year-employee with the capital city, Hoddinott was preparing this and other flower beds at Bannerman Park for the upcoming summer planting season of flowers and shrubs and other green foilage.
-Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram

ALLISTER AALDERS: Between mid-April showers, snow there’s brighter, warmer weather

Updated Apr. 17, 2024 |4 min read

ALLISTER AALDERS: Fluctuating temperatures will mix April showers with flurries

Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |3 min read

ALLISTER AALDERS: Unsettled, mild weekend with brighter skies expected next week

Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |4 min read

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-Contributed/Ray Kujundzic

WEATHER PHOTO: Sunset over Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Red or pink sky at night, sailors delight! Ray Kujundzic caught these pink and orange hues as the sun was setting in Charlottetown, P.E.I. While scenes at dawn and dusk can be more vivid in the late fall through winter to spring, I think a lot of us ...

Updated 22 hours ago |1 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Along the shores of Whycocomagh, N.S.

Updated a day ago |1 min read

-Contributed/Vince Forrestall

WEATHER PHOTO: Paddleboarding under the Confederation Bridge near Borden-Carleton, P.E.I.

Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |1 min read

-Contributed/Marlene Noonan

WEATHER PHOTO: A Bell Island sunset from Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, N.L.

Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |1 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Double rainbow in Bedford, N.S.

Updated Apr. 17, 2024 |1 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Soon setting sail in Inverness, N.S.

Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |2 min read

Featured Ask Allister

This dark line across the clouds in Falmouth, N.S., appears to be a contrail shadow. -Contributed/Joan Alyward Mansfield

ASK ALLISTER: What caused this line through the clouds?

I often tell people to look up, because you never know what you might see. Sometimes, when we do that, we also see cool phenomena. Joan Alyward Mansfield and her daughter Colleen were in Falmouth, N.S., and caught this dark line through the clouds ...

Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |3 min read

BEHIND THE WEATHER: Why are some clouds bright and others dark?

Updated Apr. 17, 2024 |3 min read

Dark clouds over the Cape Breton Highlands from Cape Smokey last summer. -Allister Aalders/SaltWire

ASK ALLISTER: Where did ‘April showers bring May flowers’ originate?

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |3 min read

Pedestrians walk past flowers planted near the main entrance to the Halifax Public Gardens on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.
Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald

ASK ALLISTER: What causes wind?

Updated Apr. 2, 2024 |3 min read

ALLISTER AALDERS: Weather’s connection to maple syrup production

Updated Mar. 19, 2024 |3 min read

ASK ALLISTER: The total solar eclipse is one month away, but will clouds ruin the show?

Updated Mar. 8, 2024 |5 min read

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