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While high-pressure settles the weather in the Maritimes, some late-season snow will fall across parts of N.L.

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

Allister Aalders · Weather Specialist |Updated Apr. 17, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

While winter’s presence becomes less and less through April, it’s still lingering.    There was a chance of flurries forecast last night in eastern Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and a retrograding area of low pressure will bring a mixture of ...

-Contributed/Heather Crocker

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

Allister Aalders · Weather Specialist |Updated Apr. 17, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

April showers might bring May flowers, but it also increases the odds of seeing rainbows. Heather Crocker caught this double rainbow in Bedford, N.S., last evening as convective showers passed over the region. Heather said it’s been a while since she ...

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

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

Allister Aalders · Weather Specialist |Updated Apr. 17, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

Clouds come in all different types, shapes, sizes and, sometimes, colours.  Aside from the sometimes colourful clouds we see at dawn and dusk, most would classify clouds as being white or grey. Sometimes, however, clouds are much darker.    So, what ...

-Contributed/Francis A. MacDonald (@PhotoCapeBreton on X)

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

Allister Aalders · Weather Specialist |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

In no time, these boats will leave the land and be docked and travelling the waters off Cape Breton Island. Francis A. MacDonald shared this photo of the Sue Sea V, Miss Kelly 1, and Ocean Spray IV in Inverness, N.S. In addition to technology, I’m ...

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

Allister Aalders · Weather Specialist |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

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 ...

-Contributed/Jill Crossman

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

Allister Aalders · Weather Specialist |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

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 ...

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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: Unsettled, mild weekend with brighter skies expected next week

Allister Aalders · Weather Specialist |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

While not everyone is welcoming more rain falling once again on the weekend, I’m sure most are grateful for the milder weather.    Temperatures have elevated into the high single digits to mid-teens across the region, and parts of Nova Scotia and New ...

-Contributed/Vineeth Nayath Gopalan

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

Allister Aalders · Weather Specialist |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

Natural beauty is always on display in Atlantic Canada, but it has been much more vivid in the last couple of weeks. Vineeth Nayath Gopalan shared this picturesque photo of Northern Bay Sands in Northern Bay, N.L. I know we don’t want to wish away ...

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?

Allister Aalders · Weather Specialist |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

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 ...

-Contributed/Ed Robillard

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

Allister Aalders · Weather Specialist |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

Something I was amazed to see during the solar eclipse was how many people flocked to our region from the U.S. and other parts of the world. Ed Robillard caught the first cruise ship of the season departing the Charlottetown Harbour from Stratford, ...

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