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Meet Hurricane Alex

A strange hurricane is forming and it’s doing something no other storm has in over 75 years.

A low pressure system strengthened rapidly from a tropical storm on Wednesday, 13-Jan-2016, to become Hurricane Alex on Thursday. The new Atlantic hurricane is the first one to form this early (in January) since 1938, NASA says, citing the National Hurricane Centre (NHC).

Alex’s maximum sustained winds are close to 85 mph (136 km/h), with higher gusts possible. According to The Atlantic, the storm could bring flash floods and mudslides, as well as large, dangerous waves near the coast. A hurricane warning Continue reading Meet Hurricane Alex →

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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? →

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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.

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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 →

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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 →

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