What Is The Weather Today? (No Mercury Jockeying!)

[SignalHillHiker]

Another lovely evening. Went to Fort Amherst and broke into the old American base with jeddy1989.

[MonctonRad]

Looks like the old WW2 battery at the tip of Point Pleasant Park in Halifax. Just about the same extent of disrepair.

[SignalHillHiker]

It's a pity they're not preserved better. The ones at Cape Spear are being restored to an extent, but Fort Amherst, Red Cliff, Southside Hills, etc. All the rest throughout the city and along the coast are being left to ruin. We should play up our WWII relics more. We have the Nazi weather station in Labrador (they came ashore and set one up). We have I believe the only place in North America bombed/torpedoed by the Nazis (the Battery in St. John's, and Bell Island in suburban St. John's). We had blackout rules like London - every light off at night until the end of the war. You couldn't light a candle without the police raiding your house. All sort of things were interesting... even YYT. It was run by the Canadians, the vast majority of the passengers through it were American servicemen, and the few civilians were from a then-third country, our own. And at that particular point our passports were in transition - we still had Newfoundland ones, but the newly-issued ones for the past couple of years were British. What a mess that must've been to administer.

[MonctonRad]

Yeah, the war was a lot closer to home than a lot of people think.

My parents lived in Borden PEI during the war. They had blackouts every night (just like everywhere else on the east coast AFAIK). They were taken deadly serious. One of the PEI ferries was torpedoed and sunk during the war (it wasn't in service, it was returning from refit in Halifax). There were a lot of ships sunk in the Gulf of St Lawrence and the St Lawrence estuary too. The HMCS Charlottetown was sunk in the Gulf, not too far from the shore of PEI.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by TownGuy

Beautiful. Looks like a nature reserve. How large is your property?

Thanks. Probably not as large as you think. Its a double lot on a cul-de-sac.



I don't think I'm giving too much away regarding my location by posting this here (in the Canada forum, not the Moncton section).

When we chose our house plan, it included a side facing three car garage. The house with a driveway wide enough to allow for a turning radius into the garage would not have fit on a single lot, so we bought two lots. The lots had mature trees on them so we took this opportunity to try and save as many trees as possible. The back yard is really the side yard. There's a gazebo under the canopy and we created a walking trail so that we could access the very back of the property while keeping it in it's natural state. The tree canopy also overhangs my pool keeping everything nice and private and shady. It turned out very well. I also really like the treed border between my driveway and the neighbours as well..

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Yeah, the war was a lot closer to home than a lot of people think.

My parents lived in Borden PEI during the war. They had blackouts every night (just like everywhere else on the east coast AFAIK). They were taken deadly serious. One of the PEI ferries was torpedoed and sunk during the war (it wasn't in service, it was returning from refit in Halifax). There were a lot of ships sunk in the Gulf of St Lawrence and the St Lawrence estuary too. The HMCS Charlottetown was sunk in the Gulf, not too far from the shore of PEI.

Yeah, same for us.

The S.S. Caribou was I believe our deadliest loss during the war. It was returning to Newfoundland from Nova Scotia.

Caribou was carrying 46 crew members and 191 civilian and military passengers. The ship's longtime Captain, Benjamin Taverner, was commanding the vessel as she was struck, and perished along with his sons Stanley and Harold, who served as first and third officers respectively. Of the deceased, two were rescued at first, but they later died from exposure to the cold water. 137 people died that morning, and the passenger and crew totals were broken down as follows: of 118 military personnel, 57 died; of 73 civilians, 49 died; of the 46 crew members, 31 died. 34 bodies were found and brought to Port aux Basques by fishing schooners chartered by the Newfoundland Railway Company.

News of the sinking sparked much outrage as victims' friends and families, and the populace at large, condemned the Nazis for targeting a passenger ferry. An editorialist with The Royalist newspaper in St. John's wrote that the sinking “was such a useless crime from the point of view of warfare. It will have no effect upon the course of the war except to steel our resolve that the Nazi blot on humanity must be eliminated from our world.” As bodies were recovered, the burials started. The Channel/Port aux Basques area was the worst hit as many crewmembers of the Caribou were local men. A funeral on October 18 for six victims was attended by hundreds of mourners, and a procession that followed the bodies to the grave sites reportedly measured two kilometres long.

https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/caribou-sinking.php

[TownGuy]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Thanks. Probably not as large as you think. Its a double lot on a cul-de-sac.



I don't think I'm giving too much away regarding my location by posting this here (in the Canada forum, not the Moncton section).

When we chose our house plan, it included a side facing three car garage. The house with a driveway wide enough to allow for a turning radius into the garage would not have fit on a single lot, so we bought two lots. The lots had mature trees on them so we took this opportunity to try and save as many trees as possible. The back yard is really the side yard. There's a gazebo under the canopy and we created a walking trail so that we could access the very back of the property while keeping it in it's natural state. The tree canopy also overhangs my pool keeping everything nice and private and shady. It turned out very well. I also really like the treed border between my driveway and the neighbours as well..

Looks like an awesome property!

Has an exurban vibe which I've come around to lately from a land use perspective. Sure they are not walkable and you have to drive everywhere but look at the natural habitat you've retained there! In a city the size of Moncton it totally works but for the Atlanta's of the world that's where it breaks down a little bit.

What really gets me is people who have large properties and basically create a giant grass field around their house that requires constant mowing and does nothing for the environment. You have done it right.

[giallo]

Originally Posted by itom 987

I am shocked at how far the smoke from BC's wildfires have spread. Get your 🞵🞵🞵🞵 together BC and fight those fires.

Not sure if this comment is serious or not.

[Nicko999]

It was cloudy with on and off showers until about 3PM... then the sky cleared for about 2 hours and the temperature skyrocketed to 26C with a humidex of 34. We had another heavy downpour at about 5PM.

Low of 20C this morning.

The warmspot was Vineland, ON at 30.0C.

Let's finish August in style!!! With our warmest low of the year... the mark to beat for Trudeau is 23.1C on July 24th.

[Denscity]

It actually rained here!! I can’t remember the last time it did!
Desperately needed

[Airboy]

Cloudy cool and showery today. Started my ride yesterday at 10C. (its August and I had to ride in me fall gear). Had the furnace on, and may have it on all week. good news is the rain is helping some of the fires. Waterton NP is no longer on the evacuation watch. the Glacier NP fire g 20mm of rain overnight and is not a threat for WNP. Smoke has dropped off in YEG as well today.

[pegcityboy]

Cool and much needed rain yesterday, 18-19 today and tomorrow air conditioning is off temporarily as temps forecast to be 25-28 Wednesday on. Lows of 10 tonite and tomorrow

[SignalHillHiker]

[Denscity]

Snow on highway 1 west of Calgary!!

[north 42]

Sticky and tropical with a Heat Warning!

[Architype]

We've had a return of blue skies (sort of) in Vancouver today, temp about 23°C, wind 5 km/hr, humidity 58%. Finally, less smoke and some enjoyable weather again.

[Nicko999]

Heat warnings for Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec with expected humidex readings between 40-42.

Heat warnings in NB and NS with expected humidex readings between 34-37.

Context...

26C with a humidex of 33 and mainly cloudy today. It was much cloudier than expected so it shaved off 2 degrees of what was forecasted... Oh well yesterday was better than expected so can't complain. Plus we're still above normal.

Low of 18C this morning.

The warmspots were Windsor and Sarnia, ON at 31.4C.

BTW- 60th consecutive day with a high above 23C. This all-time long streak has no end in sight.


https://twitter.com/YUL_Weather

[q12]

The records in Halifax are going to be smashed after this summer is over:

Today is #Halifax's 32nd day with humidex ≥32 this year which put 2018 in 1st place for the most ever.


https://twitter.com/YHZ_Weather/status/1034148372050010115

Today is #Halifax's 62nd consecutive ≥20°C day which put June 27➞August 27, 2018 in 1st place for the longest run ever.

https://twitter.com/YHZ_Weather/status/1034108282745573376

I took this picture about a week ago at Martinique Beach. It's the longest sandy beach in Nova Scotia (except for Sable Island). The 5 km long beach is only a little more than 30 minutes from Halifax.

[flar]

It's actually hot outside right now, 26 and very humid. There has been a very warm, sustained south wind all day and continuing still.

[flar]

Originally Posted by q12

The records in Halifax are going to be smashed after this summer is over:





I took this picture about a week ago at Martinique Beach. It's the longest sandy beach in Nova Scotia (except for Sable Island). The 5 km long beach is only a little more than 30 minutes from Halifax.

Is the water warm enough to swim?