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MARCH 19, 2006-- Spring has not Sprung--A man bikes through Snow flurries and cold temperatures on Main St. in Dartmouth Sunday. Winter held on until the last day with highs reaching 3 degrees.

ALLISTER AALDERS: Fluctuating temperatures will mix April showers with flurries

The jet stream is often dubbed a highway that controls the movement of our weather, but the weather is not always travelling at highway speeds and sometimes comes to a halt. There is a strong ridge of high-pressure southeast of Greenland and a ...

Updated 15 hours ago |3 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Calm reflections in Mermaid, P.E.I.

Updated 16 hours ago |1 min read

-Contributed/Jill Crossman

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

Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |4 min read

FOR NEWS STANDALONE:
A man with a colorful umbrella makes his way down the street, on a dreary wet afternoon in Halifax Thursday June 5, 2018.

Tim Krochak/ The Chronicle Herald

WEATHER PHOTO: Stunning view of Northern Bay, N.L.

Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |1 min read

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

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |3 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: First cruise ship of the season in Stratford, P.E.I.

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |1 min read

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MARCH 19, 2006-- Spring has not Sprung--A man bikes through Snow flurries and cold temperatures on Main St. in Dartmouth Sunday. Winter held on until the last day with highs reaching 3 degrees.

ALLISTER AALDERS: Fluctuating temperatures will mix April showers with flurries

The jet stream is often dubbed a highway that controls the movement of our weather, but the weather is not always travelling at highway speeds and sometimes comes to a halt. There is a strong ridge of high-pressure southeast of Greenland and a ...

Updated 15 hours ago |3 min read

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

Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |4 min read

FOR NEWS STANDALONE:
A man with a colorful umbrella makes his way down the street, on a dreary wet afternoon in Halifax Thursday June 5, 2018.

Tim Krochak/ The Chronicle Herald

ALLISTER AALDERS: Mild temperatures accompany more rain, wind

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |3 min read

It was a wet day in the capital city on Thursday, April 20, 2023, especially for pedestrians out for a stroll, contending with the rain, drizzle and fog. The inclement weather though didn’t fizz on this duo as they were walking eastward on Empire Avenue near Stamp’s, one with Tim Hortons’s coffee cup in hand. Their water protection pull-over ponchos perhaps kept them a little dry enroute to their destination. -Joe Gibbons/The Telegram

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ALLISTER AALDERS: Reflecting on Monday’s awe-inspiring total solar eclipse

Updated Apr. 10, 2024 |4 min read

Viewing the solar eclipse in Atlantic Canada? Here’s what’s expected weather-wise

Updated Apr. 5, 2024 |4 min read

BY THE NUMBERS: March was much warmer, wetter than normal across most of Atlantic Canada

Updated Apr. 4, 2024 |4 min read

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-Contributed/Jill Crossman

WEATHER PHOTO: Calm reflections in Mermaid, P.E.I.

It was calm, but not quite 100 per cent clear, when Jill Crossman was out with her camera in Mermaid, P.E.I., last week. She caught the still water and reflection off Freeman’s Pond and the high-level clouds rolling across the sky. Jill told SaltWire ...

Updated 16 hours ago |1 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Stunning view of Northern Bay, N.L.

Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |1 min read

-Contributed/Vineeth Nayath Gopalan

WEATHER PHOTO: First cruise ship of the season in Stratford, P.E.I.

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |1 min read

-Contributed/Ed Robillard

SOLAR ECLIPSE 2024: A celestial gathering in Bouctouche, N.B.

Updated Apr. 10, 2024 |1 min read

SOLAR ECLIPSE 2024: The diamond ring effect in Miramichi, N.B.

Updated Apr. 9, 2024 |1 min read

WEATHER PHOTO: Colourful sunrise in Sydney, N.S.

Updated Apr. 4, 2024 |1 min read

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

Of all the weather-related folklore and phrases, April showers bring May flowers has to be one of the most well-known and popular ones. I included that line at the end of a weather column earlier this week and then started thinking a bit more about ...

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |3 min read

ASK ALLISTER: What causes wind?

Updated Apr. 2, 2024 |3 min read

Wind is formed in an attempt to restore balance from differences in air pressure.

ALLISTER AALDERS: Weather’s connection to maple syrup production

Updated Mar. 19, 2024 |3 min read

March 28, 2013
Sap begins to flow from a maple tree in Lake Paul, N.S. as the temperature warms up on Thursday, March 28, 2013.
(Ryan Taplin/Staff)

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

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ASK ALLISTER: How a frosty windshield becomes a work of art

Updated Feb. 28, 2024 |3 min read

ALLISTER AALDERS: The science of how fog can melt snow quickly

Updated Feb. 27, 2024 |2 min read

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