Some personal and professional news to share - I have moved!
After a lil more than 4 years at the Newfoundland and Labrador Weather Office in Gander, I have transferred back home to Halifax to work at the Atlantic Storm Prediction Centre in Dartmouth.
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A huge thank you to my coworkers in Gander for being the supportive, welcoming, and knowledgeable crowd that they are. This is the next chapter for me, but my Gander chapter is fundamental in my growth and I’ll be forever grateful for it.
I miss you all dearly 🥲
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As for what this means for this account, I’ll still be posting about weather that interests me in both the Maritimes and NL, and lurking around the #NLwx hashtag because I will miss the community, for sure.
Thank you, Newfoundland and Labrador, for everything. ❤️
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Robert G. 🇨🇦 retweeted
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
Robert G. 🇨🇦 retweeted
🎯 Introducing targeted severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings!
We can now draw polygons around a storm and direct alerts to that area.
Learn more: ow.ly/qPhm50Zz19G
ALT Weather map showing a new targeted alert polygon in black, with a colored precipitation area inside it. Text: New targeted warning polygon.
A very red sunset thanks to wildfire smoke aloft from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Quebec and Labrador. #NLwx
Thunderstorm outlooks are now available ⛈️☺️
You can find a link to them on your city forecast page, or visit weather.gc.ca/en/forecast/th… for the Atlantic Canada outlooks.
Theyre also on the app in More tab, under “weather information”.
#NSStorm #NLwx #NBStorm #PEstorm
The snow is certainly flying over parts of St. John’s as this @NTVNewsNL live camera over Admiral’s Green shows very well.
Still the potential for accumulating snowfall, primarily over higher terrain, throughout the remainder of the day! #NLwx
Good riddance! #NLwx
#GanderWest snow coverage now too low for depth to be measurable, thus marked as trace, ending 153-day run of measurable snow-on-ground (Dec 3–May 4).
Area's longest run since 2016–17 (168 days, Nov 28–May 14). Stark contrast w/ 2024–25’s max run (48 days, Jan 25–Mar 13). #nlwx
Would love some more snowfall observations from areas seeing the storm today! From GFW to the Avalon, including the metro area. It would be greatly appreciated! #NLwx
Despite the look on radar that snow is moving in quick, there seems to be a considerable amount of virga ahead of this system.
Webcams over the southern Burin & Avalon show that although radar suggests snow has begun, it has yet to begin. It should very soon, however. #nlwx
Some pretty poor visibility over parts of southern and eastern Newfoundland this evening, especially over the Burgeo and Bay d’Espoir highways! #NLwx
Environment and Climate Change Canada launches NEW weather alert system to help protect Canadians in extreme weather.
ow.ly/V6Ix106qPJW
If only the warning said something along the lines of “High-sided vehicles will be overturned by the wind.” *sigh* 🙃
Peak gust of 134 km/h in the Wreckhouse area as of 10:30 P.M. NST. #NLwx
⚠️ UPDATE (November 16, 2025, 10 :20 p.m.) : Channel-Port aux Basques RCMP advises that due to an additional incident and extremely high winds, both lanes of the TCH in the Wreckhouse area between Red Rocks and St. Andrew’s are now closed to traffic.
Police request that motorists throughout the Wreckhouse area drive with caution this evening as extremely high winds are creating dangerous conditions.
The live camera of #Melissa making landfall in Treasure Beach in #Jamaica may be the most insane footage I have ever seen from a hurricane. Unreal. youtube.com/live/z2HfoQ_HMfY
