Novaweather

Welcome to NovaWeather...

...a source of weather information for meteorologists
and citizens of Atlantic Canada

Weather conditions at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia (45.588N / 62.656W elevation 120 ft)
DATA ARCHIVES: Year-to-date | Last month | This month | Past week | Past 2 days
VIEW STATION DATA ON MAP CWOP DISPLAY AND INFO SITE | MAP | 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

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)

SATELLITE IMAGERY
Interactive Satellite Viewer
Big North America Images: IR | VIS | WV
HRPT and GOES EAST*
CMC Images
POES rain-rate products
MODIS - 250-m Resolution   Maritimes subsets
Gulf St. Lawrence subset   Newfoundland subset
CIMSS Imagery (Sat winds, shear products, etc)
NRL - Various Images (US and S. Canada)
Water Vapor Loops: NOAA1   NOAA2   NOAA3
RAMSDIS

MARINE WEATHER
Offshore Weather Data
Buoy Data:
National Data Buoy Center    Smartbay (NFLD)
South Ramea Island CDIP (NFLD) Directional Spectrum     NCDC site
B edford Basin Buoy
Gulf St Lawrence buoys (IML)
Buoy instrument specifications: 3-m discus | NOMAD
                                                  sampling specs
Sea States: 12Z*: Anal | 12HR | 24HR | 36HR PROG
00Z*: Anal | 12HR | 24HR | 36HR PROG
CMC Waves [WAM]
NOAA WaveWatch III wave model       Main Display      Tabular
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)
MODIS SST
AVHRR SST (John Hopkin's)
SST Anomalies: NESDIS NHC Gulf of Maine
Ocean Prediction Center (Washington, DC)
ASCAT   Alternate
Windsat , Cloudsat, etc (NRL)
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)

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
Halifax (CBC Radio near Citadel Hill)
Bedford, NS [map]
Dartmouth, NS (Woodside - EMO Bldg)
Cole Harbor, NS
Porter's Lake, NS
Truro, NS [map]
New Glasgow, NS archive
River John, Pictou Co., NS
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
Road Reports - 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

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
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)

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
Various analyses including Europe
NA Temperature Contour (UNISYS)
US Surface Weather Depiction
4-panel Weather Summary (PSC)
Snow depth analyses

CLIMATOLOGY
Canadian Climate Normals - 1971-2000 data
Climate Network Maps (Atlantic Canada)
Bjarne Hansen's diurnal/seasonal climatology website
Wind and Wave Climatology (MSC)

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

UPPER-AIR DATA
Upper-air Charts (CMC): 850 | 700 | 500 | 250
Interactive Sounding Site Map (Canada, US)
Mandatory Level Plots (UNISYS)
Wind Profilers

REFERENCE / MANUALS
WeatherTap (lightning, radar, etc)
Natural Hazards of Canada
The Weather Calculator (El Paso NWSO)
UM Weather Software Archive
Standard Atmosphere Calculator
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   [early online releases]
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

LIGHTNING DATA
WeatherTap LTNG
Lightning analysis EC (strike frequency)
Lightning analysis (TWN )
StormVue (NE US/Ern. Canada)
StormVue (NB - Fredericton)

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)
Oceanic Heat Content/Altimerty     [alternate]
John Knaff's Tropical Satellite Imagery (CIRA)
Tropical Satellite Imagery (CIMSS) (includes recon display)
Bob Hart's Cyclone Phase Analyses
AMSU-derived Tropical Products
CIMSS Satellite Blog (including some RapidScan imagery)
Weather Underground Tropical Page
UNISYS Tropical Archive/Information
JHU/APL Tropical Imagery
AOML HRD Flight Imagery
Storm-centred Marine Data Plots
Best track datasets: DeMaria   Landsea   Kossin
Jonathan Vigh's Vortex Data Message archive
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
Bob Hart's TC Landfall Probability
WMO: RSMCs   TC Page
eTRaP (Tropical Rainfall Potential)
NTC Activity Calculator
Realtime ACE: Ryan Maue (FSU/COAPS) | Mike Fiorino (NOAA/ESRL)
SST/SST Anomalies for Atlantic Hurricane Window
Damage Estimator (ICAT)
Hurricane Bill - coastal impact summary (Taylor, et al. 2010)

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]
W xcaster - various NAM/GFS diagnostic fields
NAM/GFS QSF: M ain Tables   NAM 48HR 10:1
             NAM 48HR Kuchera   GFS 48HR Kuchera
             UNISYS NAM 48HR 10:1
NAM Visibility
GFS Theta-e on Dynamic Trop Progs
SUNY Albany - specialized forecast fields (PV)
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)

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

EC Clients Server (password required)

Links with (*) are password-protected

Special Weather Events

This site is owned and operated by Chris Fogarty, last updated on 25 July 2010
[Site created 12 November 1999]
Report old links to: EMAIL

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.

Site Intro

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 PRODUCTS
CMC Summer Severe Weather PROGS
ETA 4-panel Lifted Index Plots
Storm Prediction Center (NWS) [SPC storm reports]

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

FIRE WEATHER
Canadian Fire Information
Fire Weather in the US (NOAA)
NB Fire Weather Observations (URL missing)
NS Fire Weather Observations [Map for the fire sites]

Bookmarks
tstorms.org
Dalhousie Oceanography
Department
POMSS (seminars)
Community for Mesoscale Modeling
RPN Utilities
Dalhousie Atmospheric Physics
Program
CMOS
Shell script writing

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

Environment Canada weatheroffice

Questions or comments? send email

Major Flood of March 31, 2003
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada

NW LOGIN

Web Forums
ACOWW
EC Youtube

HURRICANE JUAN PAGE
Hurricane Juan: September 28th and 29th, 2003 - Nova
Scotia and Prince Edward Island

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

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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AIR QUALITY
WX office AQ page
I nformation about Environment Canada's AQHI
Dalhousie U (Tom Duck) LIDAR output interpretation examples
American AQ model: Operational | Experimental

Why forecasting snowfall in Halifax is so difficult...