Welcome to NovaWeather...
...a source of weather information for meteorologists
and citizens of Atlantic Canada
Site Intro
Hurricane Research Page

Scroll down to the bottom of this page for
the special weather events section
Drastic change of fall foliage in Halifax - comparison between 05 Nov 2005 and 05 Nov 2008
Some peculiar cloud formations - Aug 01, 2008
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Weather conditions at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia (45.588N /  62.656W  elevation 120 ft)
DATA ARCHIVES: 
Year-to-date |   Last month This month |   Past weekPast 2 days
VIEW STATION DATA ON 
MAP    CWOP DISPLAY AND INFO  SITEMAP | QC

View nearby web cam on
Mt. William (elev ~ 300 ft, 3 km WSW of the station)
Photographic views
of the site and elevation map of surroundings - Pictou County
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Sunset views from the Atlantic Storm Prediction Center / Canadian Hurricane Center in Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia, Canada (July 28, 2005) 
sunset 1    sunset 2
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RADAR IMAGERY
Canadian Products:

Gore NS (XGO)
Marion Bridge NS (XMB)
Chipman, NB (XNC)
Holyrood NF (WTP)
Marble Mountain NF (XME)
Canadian Radar (every 10-minutes)*
American Products:

Caribou ME (CAR)
Radar Loop US (Intellicast)
Echo Tops/Cell Mvmt (Intellicast)
NWS Real-time radar
NEXRAD (with doppler velocity)
TROPICAL WEATHER
Canadian Hurricane Centre (Halifax)
Track Map
  CHC Bulletin and storm track
archives
National Hurricane Center (Miami)

PSC Tropical Weather Page

Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch (TAFB)
  Surface Analyses: 
00Z | 06Z | 12Z | 18Z
Summary page on hurricane models
   WU site
Tropical Model Animations
  [more on FSU MM5]
Horizontal hurricane surface wind fields (HWind)

Kerry Emanuel's TC Forecast Page

Jonathan Vigh's TC Forecast Page

Tropical Satellite Imagery (NRL, Monterey)

Tropical Satellite Imagery (CIRA)

Tropical Satellite Imagery (CIMSS)
(includes recon display)
Bob Hart's Cyclone Phase Analyses

AMSU-derived Tropical Products

Weather Underground Tropical Page

UNISYS Tropical Archive/Information

JHU/APL Tropical Imagery

AOML HRD Flight Imagery

Best track datasets: 
DeMaria   Landsea   Kossin
Hurricane City (Various Statistics)

Hurricane Re-analysis Project (AOML)

Hurricane Tracker (historical database)

Bill Gray's seasonal forecasts

Jim Leonard's Site

StormPulse Storm Tracker

Numerical guidance archive
  [documentation]
TC Genesis Forecasts:
Paul Roundy   CIRA
WMO RSMCs

NTC Activity Calculator

SST/SST Anomalies for Atlantic Hurricane Window
SATELLITE IMAGERY
Interactive Satellite Viewer

Big North America Images:
IR | VIS | WV
HRPT and GOES EAST*

CMC Images

POES rain-rate products

TRaP (Tropical Rainfall Potential)

MODIS -
250-m Resolution Maritimes subsets
   Gulf St. Lawrence subset   Newfoundland subset
CIMSS Imagery (Sat winds, shear products, etc)

Upper Ocean Heat Content (from altimetry data)

NRL - Various Images (US and S. Canada)

Water Vapor Loops:
NOAA1 NOAA2 NOAA3
SURFACE OBSERVATIONS
Map of Station Identifiers (Canada)

Identifiers:
NS/PEI NB NF LAB
Halifax mesonetwork:
aerial site names
Eastern Canada (UNISYS)

United States (UNISYS)

NOAA(HPC) large surface plot maps

(change UTC time in URL for current/history)

Weather Interface Search Key (Taxas A&M)

Interactive Surface Data (U. of Wyoming)

SAs and SYNOs*

Privately-operated weather stations:

Tusket, NS
(just east of Yarmouth)
Bridgewater, NS

Chester, NS
Mahone Bay, NS
Coldbrook, NS
(near Greenwood)
West Brooklyn Mtn, NS
(10km east of Wolfville)
Middle Sackville, NS

Bedford, NS
[map]
Dartmouth, NS
(Woodside - EMO Bldg)
Cole Harbor, NS
Porter's Lake, NS

Truro, NS
[map]
New Glasgow, NS
  archive
Antigonish (Hbr), NS

Drum Head, NS
[Guysborough Co.]  archive
Baddeck, NS

Sydney Mines NS
Bertrand, NB
(Acadian Pen.)
Norris Pt., NL
[map]
Belanger (Codroy Vlly), NL

Clarenville, NL

New Chelsea (Avalon), NL

St. John's, NF (MUN)

Cape Pine, NL
[map]
OTHER SURFACE DATA:
MADIS surface data display
OTHER (Davisnet) - including many in NEW BRUNSWICK
CWOP - Citizens Weather Observing Program

MesoWest stations display map

WeatherUnderground display map

HYDROMETRIC DATA:
Water Survey of Canada riverflow conditions

Newfoundland River Flow Sites

New Brunswick RiverWatch
GPS-based 5-minutely surface data
MARINE WEATHER
Offshore Weather Data

Buoy Data:

        
National Data Buoy Center    Smartbay
        
CMEP Lunenburg Bay buoys
        
Gulf St Lawrence buoys (ILM)
        Buoy instrument specifications: 3-m discusNOMAD
Sea States: 12Z*:
Anal | 12HR | 24HR | 36HR PROG
                     
00Z*: Anal | 12HR | 24HR | 36HR PROG
                     
CMC Waves [WAM]
                     
NOAA WaveWatch III wave model
                     
SWAN / GoMOOS forecasts (waves)
                     
OPC Current Sea State
                     
NEREIDS Satellite Waves
                     
Coastal Surf Information
Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Data:
  
NESDIS SST data - many regions
  
REMSS SST interface    REMSS TC Page
  
NOAA satellite-based SST (high-res)
  
DFO SSTs (Atlantic area)
  MODIS SST
  
SST Anomalies: NESDIS NHC Gulf of Maine
Ocean Prediction Center (Washington, DC)

QuikSCAT
  Alternate 1    ASCAT
Windsat (...and QuikSCAT, etc)

Tidesonline - U.S. coastal tide gauge data

Storm Surge Probabilistic Display (US)

Canadian Tide Tables

Tide gauges

Canadian Ice Service
AVIATION WEATHER
Canadian Products:

NAVCAN Weather
CMC Aviation PROGs
GFAs for Canadian Airspace
American Products:
Aviation Digital Data Service (US)
CAT Forecasts (NOAA)
Aviation Weather Center (Kansas City)
SUMMER SEVERE WEATHER
Quick Review of Convective Indices

ANALYSIS PRODUCTS

  
Radar Imagery NavCanada (CAPPI and Echo Tops)
  
Maine Radar Echo Tops and Cell Movement
  
Sounding Data (including many convective indices)
FORECAST PRODUCT
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CMC Summer Severe Weather PROGS
  
ETA 4-panel Lifted Index Plots
  
Storm Prediction Center (NWS)   [SPC storm reports]
SURFACE ANALYSES
Canada (CMC): 
00Z | 06Z | 12Z | 18Z
OPC Eastern Seaboard & West Atlantic:

                             
00Z | 06Z | 12Z | 18Z
OPC Western Europe & East Atlantic:

                             
00Z | 06Z | 12Z | 18Z
NA Temperature Contour (UNISYS)

US Surface Weather Depiction

4-panel Weather Summary (PSC)
Snow depth analyses
AIR QUALITY
WX office AQ page

AIRNOW

Environment Canada AQHI
Dalhousie U (Tom Duck) LIDAR output    interpretation examples
Canadian AQ model: CHRONOS
American AQ model: 
Operational | Experimental
UPPER-AIR DATA
Upper-air Charts (CMC):
850 | 700 | 500 | 250
Interactive Sounding Site Map (Canada, US)

Mandatory Level Plots (UNISYS)

Wind Profilers
LIGHTNING DATA
WeatherTap LTNG
Lightning analysis EC (strike frequency)

Lightning analysis (TWN
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StormVue (NE US/Ern. Canada)

StormVue (NB - Fredericton)
FIRE WEATHER
Canadian Fire Information

Fire Weather in the US (NOAA)

NB Fire Weather Observations
NS Fire Weather Observations
  [Map for the fire sites]
WEATHER CAMS
Highway Cameras: 
NS    PEI    NB    NFLD
Halifax - Harbour Cam

Halifax - Fenwick Tower View

Halifax - Bedford Basin
Halifax International Airport   12
Peggy's Cove, NS

Lunenburg / Chester, Nova Scotia
Digby, Nova Scotia
Kentville Downtown

West Brooklyn Mtn (10km E. Wolfville, NS)
Liverpool, NS (east and west views)
Cape Breton - L'Ardoise

Prince Edward Island Cams (incl. Bridge)

Fredericton, NB (AFC Cam)

St. John's, NF (downtown)

WU Webcams

Nav Canada sites

Quebec region cameras

More web cams at Rodney Barney's site
METEOROLOGICAL DATA ARCHIVES
Canadian data: 
Station Data   Monthly Summaries
Storm Summary Reports - Atlantic Canada

METARs and SAs running archive (max past 1440 obs)

PSC surface data display interface (back to 1998)

FSL Sounding Archive (1998...)

IRGA Sounding Archive

NESDIS Satellite Archive (1974...)

QuikSCAT  
[storm archive 1]    [storm archive 2]
AVHRR SST/Cloud-cover Archive (1979...)

Radar Data Archive

Canadian Buoy Data Archive

SST Archive (CLASS)

Special Events Imagery (NCDC)

Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Data (1976...)

Precipitation graphics (monthly) + climatology

NCEP-NCAR Re-analyses (1948...)
    Visualization
NOAA SRRS - various NOAA-based products archive

Climate Diagnostics Center historical data plotting interface

Oceanographic Data (SST Climatology, BIO)
  SST Data since 1997
Daily Weather Maps (US, lower Canada)

Station data plot archive

Station observation history (Canada)

Numerical Model Output Archive
TRMM archive viewer - tropical/subtropical applications
           (also includes GOES IR, QuikSCAT and TMI SST)
COMPUTER MODEL FORECASTS
Various Models:  
site 1 |   site 2 (includes 1-week archive)
CMC GEM runs (regional/global/ensemble)

   
[GEM Cloud]
Multi-Model Display/Comparison Site
NCEP Models Page (NAM, GFS, MRF, NGM)

GEM Precip Types

NAM/GFS Precip Types
  [alternate site]
NAM/GFS Precp + other
   NAM QSF
GFS Theta-e on Dynamic Trop Progs
SUNY Albany - specialized forecast fields    (shear/PV charts)
GEM Model Displays: 
REG GLB
U. Mich. Models Page (ETA, AVN, ECMWF...)

ECMWF day 3-4-5-6

MRF 9-panel (UNISYS)

Cyclone tracking site

WRF for NFLD (SmartBay)
Model Soundings (WRF, GFS, UKMET)

MOS from GEM*: 
NS   PEI   NB   NF (1 2 3)
REFERENCE / MANUALS
WeatherTap
(lightning, radar, etc)
Natural Hazards of Canada
The Weather Calculator (El Paso NWSO)

UM Weather Software Archive

Standard Atmosphere Calculator
CMC

Wind Chill, Humidex, Humidity Calculators

Canadian Wind Chill Table (Celsius, km/h)

Saturation Vapor Pressure Table (mb)

Humidex Table (Celsius)
  with dew points
Sun and Moon Rise/Set Tables

Meteorological SYNO Decodes

Synoptic Codes Table

AMS Journals Online
  [forthcoming issues]
Precipitation-typing nomogram
   Table
Radar Beam Height Nomogram

Photo Gallery of Weather

Blank Plotting Maps - Eastern Canada:

   1.
Atlantic Canada    2. Marine Regions
   3.
Maritimes 4. Maritimes 2   5. Atlantic Canada 2
   6. 
Color topo-ref map
MatLab scripts

Norlat Case Studies Library

Wave training module
(including dynamic fetch)
Lat/Long finder
MANOBS
MANAIR

MANAB

MANMAR

PUBPRO

TAF/METAR
TEXT FORECASTS
Public

Nova Scotia

Prince Edward Is.

New Brunswick

Newfoundland

Labrador

Complete suite of bulletins*
MEDIA
The Halifax Herald (Halifax NS)

Halifax Metro News
(formerly Daily News)
The Telegram (St. John's NF)

New Glasgow NS News (East Coast FM Radio)

New Glasgow Evening News
CLIMATOLOGY
Canadian Climate Normals
- 1971-2000 data
Volunteer Climate Network Maps

Bjarne Hansen's diurnal/seasonal climatology website
EC Clients Server (password required)
TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS
Maritimes
  Newfoundland   Labrador   (150-ft intervals)
Atlantic Canada Locator Map

Nova Scotia
(with locators)
Pictou Co., NS
(very high-res)
With station identifiers:
NS   NB   NF   LAB
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Special Weather Events
The Great Maritimes Blizzard of
February 18-19, 2004 (a.k.a. White Juan)

Summary Report
Impacts of the Blizzard of January 23/24, 2005
in the Maritimes

Summary Report
HURRICANE JUAN PAGE
Hurricane Juan: September 28th and 29th, 2003 - Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Major Flood of March 31, 2003
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada
A Short Case Study of an Exceptionally Hot Summer Day:
August 10th, 2001

REPORT (pdf)


Fig. 1 -
Surface analysis 18 UTC
Fig. 2 -
500 mb Height Analysis 18 UTC
Fig. 3 -
850 mb Temperatures 12 UTC
Fig. 4 -
850 mb Temperatures 18 UTC
Fig. 5. -
Maximum Temperature Plot
Fig. 6 -
Sea Surface Temperature Analysis
Fig. 7 -
Sounding from Yarmouth 12 UTC
Heavy Wet Snowfall Event - Halifax, 7 November 2002
Image 1
             Storm Summary
Image 2
            06Z 7 Nov Imagery:
Image 3
             Surface Analysis   Satellite   500 mb HT/Vort (00HR ETA)
Image 4
             Radar Composite                    1000-500mb Thickness/SLP
Link to my Projects Page which includes information on my carreer, projects and publications.  The site is devoted to my primary research topic, Extratropical Transition.
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