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Sea surface temperature anomalies in the equatorial Pacific show colder than normal temperatures are starting the return. This will mark the transition to neutral conditions with La Niña expected to return this summer to fall. -Contributed/Climate Reanalyzer (https://ClimateReanalyzer.org)

ALLISTER AALDERS: As El Niño fades, La Niña is planning a summer revival

Several teleconnections around the world influence weather patterns, but one of the most prominent and talked about is the El Niño-Southern Oscillation or ENSO. ENSO has three distinct phases – El Niño, La Niña, and neutral. How much warmer or ...

Updated Apr. 26, 2024 |4 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Waxing gibbous moon in East Chezzetcook, N.S.

Updated Apr. 26, 2024 |1 min read

-Contributed/Cynthia Dacey

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

Updated Apr. 26, 2024 |4 min read

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

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

Updated Apr. 25, 2024 |1 min read

ALLISTER AALDERS: Easing into spring gardening while awaiting last frost

Updated Apr. 24, 2024 |3 min read

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

Updated Apr. 24, 2024 |1 min read

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Sea surface temperature anomalies in the equatorial Pacific show colder than normal temperatures are starting the return. This will mark the transition to neutral conditions with La Niña expected to return this summer to fall. -Contributed/Climate Reanalyzer (https://ClimateReanalyzer.org)

ALLISTER AALDERS: As El Niño fades, La Niña is planning a summer revival

Several teleconnections around the world influence weather patterns, but one of the most prominent and talked about is the El Niño-Southern Oscillation or ENSO. ENSO has three distinct phases – El Niño, La Niña, and neutral. How much warmer or ...

Updated Apr. 26, 2024 |4 min read

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

Updated Apr. 26, 2024 |4 min read

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: Easing into spring gardening while awaiting last frost

Updated Apr. 24, 2024 |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

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

Featured Weather Snapshots

-Contributed/Cynthia Dacey

WEATHER PHOTO: Waxing gibbous moon in East Chezzetcook, N.S.

Did you catch the full pink moon this week? Cynthia Dacey said for her, it was shrouded in cloud cover at its peak but caught this amazing view a couple of days beforehand in its waxing gibbous phase in East Chezzetcook, N.S. Because of the clouds, ...

Updated Apr. 26, 2024 |1 min read

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

Updated Apr. 25, 2024 |1 min read

-Contributed/Ray Kujundzic

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

Updated Apr. 24, 2024 |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

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

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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