Power Outage, 13-Jan-2016
The FoxCreek community experienced a power outage today, 13-Jan-2016, from 11:08am to 1:21 pm.
FOXweather was not affected and data was updated and broadcasted during the outage.
FOXlive was updated but unable to broadcast its data.
Road Weight Restrictions
Spring (Weight) Restrictions, sometimes called Load Restrictions, are usually set in effect around mid March to mid May to prevent road damage from heavy vehicles during spring thaw.
While we are still ways from spring the current comparably mild climate – Continue reading Road Weight Restrictions
DYK: What is a Leap Year?
A leap year has 366 days, as opposed to a common year, which has 365. Nearly every 4 years is a Leap Year, and we add a Leap Day, an extra – or intercalary – day on February 29.
When is the next Leap Year?
The next Leap Year is 2016 – this year, so the next Leap Day falls on February 29, 2016. (The last Leap Day was on February 29, 2012.)
Why do we have Leap Years?
Leap Years are needed to keep our modern day Gregorian Calendar in alignment with the Earth’s revolutions around the sun. It takes the Earth Continue reading DYK: What is a Leap Year?
Waste Collection Schedule & Sorting Guide 2016
In the Region of Queens, waste collection is every second week as indicated on your Waste Collection Schedule. Green carts, blue bags and garbage bags are picked up on the same day.
Place materials into the grey community garbage boxes by 8:00am on collection day. Collection occurs on Continue reading Waste Collection Schedule & Sorting Guide 2016
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.
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
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
Power Outage, 30-Oct-2015
The FoxCreek community experienced a power outage today, 30-Oct-2015, from 2:34pm to 3:23 pm.
FOXweather was not affected and data was updated and broadcasted during the outage.
FOXlive was updated but unable to broadcast its data.
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.
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.