What is happening with Environment Canada’s site and this years first hurricane related weather event?
Why do I have to go to American sources in order to plan around a Sunday and Monday that Environment Canada categorizes as rain and a mix of sun and cloud?
I find this to be very disturbing and given the lack of information regarding Hurricane Bill I am saddened that there may be folks out there going in to weekend knowing only the information that the Environment Canada site is posting. Or not posting. I hope that there will be no injuries of loss of life due to Environment Canada’s omissions, as there are those that only trust in environment canada’s sunny side of life weather reporting and after the fact WOW’s.
Environment Canada’s lack of information seems dam lazy, careless and Dangerous.
Here are a couple links to what going on in the world of weather this weekend…secure your tent well away from trees…..but in Env. Can’s world..bring sunscreen and an umbrella.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml
—Shhhhhhh….Please!
This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2009.
Yeah, Actually I believe Environment Canada is planning on issueing something today or early tomorrow. So that they can give an acurate warning. But if your so far in your hole you have no idea that Hurricane Bill is heading our way you deserve what you get.
On another note did anyone hear the terror in Peter Coades voice on CBC radio on Tuesday?
Yeah, I found it frustrating too to not find good info from Enviro Canada. It is pretty unpredictable though as to where, when and how it will affect NS though…maybe that’s why they are holding off making firm predictions.
I have a feeling that its going to be pretty bad. The hurricane is bigger then NS!! All you can do is be ready for the worst and hope for the best. Last I heard it wasn’t going to make landfall until cape breton… Has that changed?
http://ec.gc.ca/ouragans-hurricanes/defaul…
For fuck sakes people, Chicken Little is running around again. Everytime there is a mention of a storm, everyone and especially the media hit panic stations. It’s not even forecast to hit land. We will get some wind and rain. So close your windows and secure your outside stuff and continue on. If the media keeps up this doom and gloom and nothing keeps happening, there will come a time when a biggie will come and we will ignore it.
Like Juan?
I think Tim just answered your question, OP. Unlike Tim, the media does not want to risk being caught with egg on their face. Not to say you are wrong, Tim, only that you may be. Forewarned is forearmed. While Tim is trying to score a wienie off a neighbour, after the storm passes, I will be eating my pre-prepared curried chicken, hot of the camp stove roti and BBQ’d apple dumpling :). And, I won’t lose a freezer of food, because I have been freezing bucket size ice cubes for days.
I guess they are saying that it will hit northern cape breton. But that the hurricane is 700 km in width.
Expecting 100 to 150mm of rain and winds over 100km/h easily in halifax.
http://www.maineharbors.com/weather/seatem…
Those sea temps are 1.5-3 degrees above normal on the scotian shelf, east of halifax… Thats a lot of extra BTUs that wouldn’t normally otherwise be there
Don’t forget the tornadoes in Ontario… that sucked up most of the airtime until Saturday…
It has at time rained like a train pounding by right outside the house…but there has been almost no wind out here in the Enfeild /Elmsdale area.
But its still early afternoon (3:07pm)
That was it?
It’s all Kosher here on the Darkside.
Although a hurricane class 1 did, in fact, make landfall in the Maritimes (the Weather Office is there to warn more than just Halifax, Tim), so far, it seems to have passed with little damage.
As well, there was no panic that I could see at the approaching of Hurricane Bill–only preparation.
Of the 14,000 or so, that did lose power so far, those that prepared are obviously glad that they did.
I am sure it would have been much worse for boaters, hikers and such if they had thought, ‘It’s nothing” and headed out as planned.
As for the time it took to prepare for a disaster that did not happen–I would much rather be sitting prepared for something that didn’t happen then to not be prepared for something that did.
On the plus side, I do not have to do any cooking for 5 days, as my meals are already prepared. All the baking I did will cover recesses for a while. My first aid kit and emergency supplies have been replenished for anything that may come up. And, as an extra bonus, the threat of danger caused some uninvited company to cancel their plans to stay with me.
Way to go HKM!
That is really the way to go.
Can I have the extras?
OK I forgot the “Getting rid of irritating relatives factor.” On the plus side you can do all the cooking in one day for the following week, disaster pending or not. One should already have the stuff they need anyways, in the normal part of having a home. I heard SS were selling “Hurrican Kits”, talk about soaking the public.
Also being in the woods or on the seas in a storm (any type) is a whole other ballgame.