Yearly Archives: 2015

FOXweather News

FOXweather website offline

Today, Saturday, 26-Dec-2015, the FOXweather & FOXlive websites were partially offline and/or not reachable.

Between 07:50am and 3:20pm today the sites could not be reached from any Bell/Alliant ISP network. Other ISPs seem to work.
This also caused weather data uploads to fail.
As an interim solution we found a way to reroute the uploads via a VPN host in Europe. The websites were updated again as of 1:50pm.

Uploads to Weather Underground& Awekas were disrupted between 12:25pm and 3:23pm.

Normal data routing was restored at 3:23pm – when access from Bell/Aliant ISP was possible again.

Unfortunately the cause of the outage remains unknown.

No weather related data was lost.

We apologize for the offline and thank our viewers for their patience.

FOXweather News

Winter Solstice, 22-Dec-2015 @ 12:49 AM AST

The December solstice is on either December 20, 21, 22 or 23. It is called Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, where it is the shortest day of the year.

December Solstice 2015 in Nova Scotia, Canada is on Tuesday, December 22 at 12:49am AST.

The Sun’s position

The Sun is directly overhead of the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere during the December Solstice.

The December Solstice occurs when the Sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, when the North Pole is tilted furthest – 23.5 degrees – away from the Sun.
Continue reading Winter Solstice, 22-Dec-2015 @ 12:49 AM AST →

FOXweather News

Winter Forecast for Canada 2015/2016

Winter is coming, Canadians, but we’re on track for one of the warmest ever.

That’s according to AccuWeather Global Weather Center, which says El Niño once again is to blame.

“We’re thinking this is going to be the second strongest El Niño on record,” senior meteorologist Brett Anderson told Yahoo Canada by phone from AccuWeather’s headquarters near State College, Pennsylvania. “It’s definitely one of the top two, with the one in 1997/98 being the strongest on record. That has a lot of influence on the weather right across Canada, Continue reading Winter Forecast for Canada 2015/2016 →

FoxCreek Community News

FoxCreek Community Access Roads Grated

Today, 20-Oct-2015, both access roads to the FoxCreek community – Old Kettle Rd from Mill Village to the Fox Creek turnaround
– Medway Harbour Rd, from Hwy 331 to the turnaround
have been scraped.

The roads look much smoother than when done in Spring and the pot holes are gone. However please be still careful driving these roads for the time being as the gravel is still loose and your car might swerve.

Maximum 50

Remember, the speed limit on Old Kettle Rd and Medway Harbour Dr. is 50km/h.

In the interest of road maintenance please keep to 30km/h on all gravel roads within the FoxCreek community.

This has the additional benefit of less wear & tear on your car’s tires and underbody. Not to mention – on dry days – less kicked up dust.

FoxCreek Community News

Burning Restrictions lifted for this Season

Wildfire Risk Season 2015 ended.
Burning restrictions are lifted as of 16-Oct-2015 until and including 14-Mar-2016.

During the fall/winter months from 16-Oct-2015 until and including 14-Mar-2016 brush fires are allowed 24 hours/day. It is no longer mandatory to consult the Burnsafe website before starting a fire.

However please use common sense when making brush fires by taking weather conditions into account. Even in winter months the soil can become fairly dry and also avoid fires on windy days!

Thank you!

Safe Brush Burning checklist!
Nova Scotia Burning Restriction (for your reference).

FoxCreek Community News

Fall Clean-up 2015

Fall clean-up (Sperrgut) for the FoxCreek community takes place in the week starting Monday, October 26th, 2015.

Place items next to the grey community garbage boxes by Monday morning.

Generally, items acceptable for pick-up are over-sized items and items not regularly collected on your regular collection day. These items shall not exceed 150 lbs. in weight or 6 feet in length.

Not allowed are:

  • adhesives
  • gasoline & diesel fuels
  • insecticides & pesticides
  • waste oil
  • cleaners & solvents
  • paints/stains, finishes & paint thinners
  • propane tanks
  • pool chemicals
  • roofing tar
  • electronics
  • building demolition waste
  • leaf & yard waste

Please keep your regular household garbage (green bags, blue bags, cardboard and compost) separate from the fall clean-up items.

20151019 Fall Cleanup

See here for more details.