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Old Posted Jun 2, 2011, 4:06 AM
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Atlantic Canada Weather Thread

Seems like a fitting night to start this thread. As I sit here watching the lightning. Basically the same as the Canada sections thread. post your areas current or forecasted weather.
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Old Posted Jun 2, 2011, 11:35 AM
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It must have been different in NB. In Nova Scotia we had a thunderstorm of rare magnitude. It was pretty awesome
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It must have been different in NB. In Nova Scotia we had a thunderstorm of rare magnitude. It was pretty awesome
I think the thunderstorms worsened as they moved eastward. Here in Moncton, there were only a few small cells that moved north and south of the city around 11PM. The intensity of the lightning was impressive but it didn't last long.
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We had the thunderstorms too. I saw the first flashes of lightning around 11:30 and it was over around 1:30. Apparently Halifax had quite the show...

On another note, any idea when its going to warm up?
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Old Posted Jun 4, 2011, 12:52 AM
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I was in Antigonish, the lightning started around 1130 and didn't stop till 3 or 4.
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The cloud-cloud lightning started around 10pm just as I was heading home and it didn't stop nailing the ground in my neighbourhood until 3 or 4. There were a few hits within a kilometre of my house and the thunder was actually making the walls vibrate (like a mini-version of Hurricane Juan without the visible swaying). My power got cut twice a few minutes at a time and it really looked like noon hour outside. It was more light than darkness the lack of time between strikes was very unusual.

It's not the worst lightning storm I've seen here but it certainly was unique. The worst I seen was up on the Northumberland Shore (around Amherst Shore) and it had hail, strong winds and unbelievable torrential downpours.
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Funny how this thread is created and a week later we're due to receive torrential rail and thunderstorms.
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Funny how this thread is created and a week later we're due to receive torrential rail and thunderstorms.
They had severe thunderstorms in NW New Brunswick, with some rotation noted. That's breeding ground for tornadoes.
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How do you even get out of a bed in the morning in St. John's with that forecast for the middle of June?
9-10 degrees celcius and rain and cloudy for 7 days.
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ohhh man thats rough. I'm glad that we seem to be out of that darkness finally. Good luck to all you St. Johners? St. Johnites? St. Johnians? lol
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‘High likelihood’ that Hurricane Irene will visit N.S.

http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/loca...will-visit-n-s

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Published: August 23, 2011 12:49 a.m.
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Hurricane Irene could slam into Nova Scotia over the weekend.

Chris Fogarty, with the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth, said yesterday there is about a
70 per cent chance the storm will make it to the province.

“That’s fairly high and there is a high likelihood that we’ll be affected in some manner. But there’s no way you can tell a week ahead of time whether it will be one heck of a wind storm or just some heavy rain for a few hours,” he said.

He said to expect Irene at our doorstep on Sunday.

Irene is the ninth named storm of the season, and potentially the first to hit Nova Scotia. Its eight predecessors have missed the Maritime provinces, but that isn’t out of the ordinary, said Fogarty.

“We usually aren’t affected in July or June. It’s quite unusual. August is when we usually start to deal with them,” he said, adding that water temperatures have warmed up, which increases the chances of Irene making it up this way.

Fogarty said in order for the hurricane to be a potentially damaging event, it would have to stay over the Atlantic Ocean. If the storm travels inland, we could still see a lot of rain, he said.

“Either way you look at it, the wind and rain aspects are still very likely.”

Yesterday evening, Irene was a Category 1 hurricane with winds of nearly 130 km/h and was located near the Dominican Republic.
This Hurricane could get to Category 4.


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Old Posted Aug 23, 2011, 4:09 PM
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If you guys want to track Hurricanes, this is my personal favorite site http://www.stormpulse.com/. most of the forcast models seem to show the storm coming right over NS, but they have changed so much this week... so we will see
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But it won't be a Hurricane by the time it hits Nova Scotia....?
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If it moves back offshore after glancing the Carolinas it might.....
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If it moves back offshore after glancing the Carolinas it might.....
I wouldn't hold my breath. It'll be a significant system, possibly post-tropical, but I doubt it'll be a hurricane by the time it reaches the Maritimes.

I'm no meteorologist, though. Just assuming.
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I use the National Hurricane Center in Miami which seems to be the most accurate and easy to use.

According to them in five days time (9pm Sunday ADT) the storm will be located around New York City/ Long Island as a Category 2 which is a straight shot to the Maritimes.

If Juan taught us anything its that hurricanes can be unpredictable. I say prepare for the reasonable worst (Category 2 landfall in city), and just hope for the best (well offshore track).
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I use the National Hurricane Center in Miami which seems to be the most accurate and easy to use.
I use this as well.

And I suppose I spoke too soon. Looks like we'll be feeling some (if not, the brunt) of this storm.
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