Driving Tuesday morning
It looks like tomorrow morning is going to be chaotic, and of course I have to be downtown in the Market really early: TAF CYOW 180238Z 1803/1824 07008KT 2SM BR OVC003 TEMPO 1803/1805 6SM -FZDZ BR...
View ArticleThe weather forecast for tomorrow morning ends at 12Z and the Mayan calendar...
I was checking out the aviation forecast for Ottawa and saw this: TAF CYOW 201438Z 2015/2112 31006KT P6SM FEW030 TEMPO 2015/2022 BKN030 BECMG 2016/2018 06005KT FM202200 06012KT P6SM FEW015 OVC090...
View ArticleCalculating wind chill
Air temperature is an important factor in how hot or cold you feel, but it’s not the only one. A few months ago, I posted a piece about how to calculate humidex, but given that it’s winter here in...
View ArticleSo much for snowshoeing this weekend…
I have been looking forward to going snowshoeing this weekend with a bunch of friends for a while now, but having just looked at the long-range forecast for this weekend, I’m not at all confident...
View ArticleIncoming warm front. Sigh.
So, I see from the Weather Office’s website that Ottawa is under a freezing rain warning for tomorrow afternoon. Judging by the TAF, it’s not going to arrive until noon, and even then it’s only showing...
View ArticleHere it comes
The incoming warm front I wrote about earlier can be seen on the edge of the composite radar image for Ontario:
View ArticleOttawa: -28C + 1 cup of boiling water + my balcony
It’s cold in Ottawa today: So, I decided to throw a cup of boiling water off my balcony:
View ArticleIncoming! (ick)
It looks like we’re in for a little an unnecessary amount of snow on Wednesday: TAF CYOW 270238Z 2703/2724 06012KT P6SM BKN180 OVC200 FM271300 07015G25KT 2SM -SN OVC020 FM271700 07020G30KT 1/2SM -SN...
View ArticleTime lapse video of Wednesday morning’s weather
I set up my GoPro this morning before heading out to work to take pictures at a 1 minute interval until the batteries died. Here’s what they look like after I stitched them together into a time lapse...
View ArticleYet another (unnecessary) winter storm
So, I get back from two weeks in the sun last Friday thinking “great! winter’s done!”. Bzzt. Wrong. Apparently, Mother Nature has seen fit to lob one more (highly unnecessary) winter storm in our...
View ArticleCould be an interesting afternoon, weatherwise
It looks like this afternoon could be exciting with possibilities of thunderstorms and hail appearing in the forecast this afternoon and Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch at 10:55....
View ArticleIncoming!
I just checked the Franktown radar and saw this: The storm by Pembroke is moving roughly SSW and in 20 minutes moved about 40km.
View ArticleWhoa
I don’t think I’ve seen the sky over Ottawa being quite this impressive in a long time…
View ArticleWelcome to 2014, eh?
So, 2014 is off to a bit of an extreme start weather-wise. We saw -27C weather that felt like -40 thanks to the wind last Thursday, and Winnipeg was colder than Mars. This evening, it’s about -5C and...
View ArticleThe incoming cold air at lunch
Just before noon today I noticed that the sky to the north of the Ottawa River was nice and clear, while the sky to the south was overcast. Well, that’s because the boundary between the high pressure...
View ArticleSnow in Tunney’s Pasture… Now you see it, now you don’t
I looked out the window at work a few minutes ago and saw the leading edge of a wall of snow moving in: About 30 seconds later the view was this: And about 20 minutes later it’s back to normal: Between...
View ArticleI want no part of this
The forecast for tomorrow has no redeeming features: TAF CYOW 150238Z 1503/1524 20010KT P6SM SCT020 OVC030 TEMPO 1503/1507 5SM -SHRA BR OVC020 BECMG 1504/1506 29010KT FM150700 29010G20KT P6SM OVC012...
View ArticleRain rain go away!
It looks like we’re in for some (potentially) exciting weather today: TAF CYOW 241138Z 2412/2512 16008KT 6SM -SHRA BR SCT008 OVC015 TEMPO 2412/2414 4SM -SHRA BR BKN008 OVC015 FM241400 19010KT P6SM...
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