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Environment Canada ranks the following as Canada's top 10 weather stories from 2005. Which of these do you think is the top weather story?
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Tuesday 10 June 2008 Water spouts caught on camera Two water spouts have been filmed forming off the Hollywood coast near Fort Lauderdale.
A water spout is a funnel-shaped cloud and differs from a tornado, which forms over land and is often more powerful.
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Tuesday 04 December 2007
HOW ABOUT THAT WEATHER? CTV
News and CBC News:
Sunday Night lead, while the Star fronts and
the
Globe, the
Citizen, La
Presse, and the
Post go inside with talk of the weather. Three separate storm systems
have dumped unexpected centimetres of snow country-wide, from British
Columbia to Ontario to the Maritimes. As Environment Canada spokesman
David Phillips tells the Globe, if it were Christmas today,
“we’d have a white Christmas from coast to coast to
coast.” Quaint expressions regarding the state of the weather are
sprinkled throughout the Big Seven today, although the storms have caused
considerable transport inconveniences across Canada. Dozens of flights
were delayed out of Toronto’s Lester B. Pearson Airport, and there
were more than six hundred automotive collisions in the GTA alone, the
Post reports. Meanwhile, B.C. Environment Minister Barry Penner has issued
a flood warning for the Lower Mainland, Howe Sound and mid-to-south
Vancouver Island as the rising temperatures melt the snow masses, says the
Globe. As for the Maritimes, CTV Atlantic meteorologist Cindy Day says that
thirty to forty centimetres have covered most of New Brunswick, most of
Prince Edward Island and the northern regions of Nova Scotia.
“It’s a biggie,” says Rob Kuhn, a severe weather
meteorologist with Environment Canada’s Ontario storm prediction
centre, who gives the Citizen his blustery predictions for the upcoming
week. Finally, your issue of La Presse is likely soaked with snow this
morning if you're in Quebec, where ongoing snowfalls will reach roughly
thirty-five centimetres by this evening.
MEDIA DISCOVERS PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN ‘CANADIAN
WINTER’ The
National, CTV
News, La
Presse and the
Citizen front, while the Post (not available online) and the
Star go inside with a major test of dignity and self-regard for any
media outlet: Whether to treat the fact that it’s snowing a lot in
Canada in December as news. One can almost feel the Globe eyeing the story
but ignoring the pressure, like a reformed smoker catching her breath and
casting a longing glance as someone lights up a cigarette. The Star tries
to resist, but gives in and bums a drag or two off of the snowstorm,
running a weather quiz next to a picture of a schnauzer with a snowy
muzzle. The Post runs a full page of storm pictures without an
accompanying article, which is akin to furtively buying a pack during a
frustrating day at work and hurriedly smoking a couple out on the loading
dock, figuring that it doesn’t count if you don’t tell anyone.
La Presse still keeps up a steady weather-news habit and cheerily puffs
away with several pages of articles,
photos
and opinion
about snow. The reliable Pierre
Folgia opines that “the difference between a snowfall and a
snowstorm isn’t accumulation, but repetition” as the residents
of his “flour-covered Brueghel” of a rural village chat
endlessly about the storm. The broadcasts never swore off this kind of
thing in the first place, and thus indulge whole-hog: Each has multiple
journalists filing reports from coast to coast to recite snowfall totals
over images of fleets of plows, delayed flights, and crawling buses.
Tuesday Mar 14, 2006 Environment Canada says the country is living through the warmest winter in the country ever recorded. The federal department says that average temperatures between December and February are almost four degrees Celsius warmer than what's considered normal, and that temperatures in the western provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as the Northwest Territories are even six to eight degrees warmer. Environment Canada says it will attempt over the next year to determine whether the warm winter temperatures are an accident or another sign of global warming.
2005
Photo gallery Click here for a photo gallery highlighting the top weather events in Canada in 2005.
Friday Dec 30, 2005 ts 2005: A year of weather extremes Flooding disasters rang up damage in three provinces
Toronto sweltered under intense summer heat wave
THIS
month saw the start of a period when climate change will be in the news
a lot. On January 17th Chris Landsea, a hurricanes specialist, withdrew
from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, accusing it of
“having become politicised”. On January 25th a report by the
International Climate Change Taskforce called for drastic actions to
cut carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions. On February 1st a
conference on the subject will be held at Britain's Hadley climate
centre. And on February 16th the Kyoto protocol comes into force. You
have been warned.
Saturday Dec 28, 2002 cbc PRAIRIE DROUGHT WORST WEATHER STORY OF 2002
The extreme drought on the Prairies has topped Environment Canada's list
of strange weather events for 2002.
Tuesday Dec 24, 2002 CLIMATE CHANGE MAY THREATEN REINDEER, CARIBOU
Perhaps Santa should offer his reindeer extra hay to keep them well fed
for their long journey. Global climate change may make it more difficult
for the hooved animals to reach their regular food source, researchers
say.
Sunday Nov 3, 2002 cbc CHILLY OCTOBER SETS PRAIRIE RECORDS
Temperatures inched a little higher on the Prairies Saturday, but a
recording-setting cold snap was expected to linger for another two
weeks.
Thursday Oct 10, 2002 cbc ANOTHER EL NINO IS HERE, EXPERTS SAY
Some Canadians can expect a milder and drier winter as another El Nino
is under way, climatologists say. ...
Environment Canada predicts the El Nino weather phenomenon will
return this winter. The department says southern Canada will
therefore have a warmer winter this year with less snow. Its report
says Canadians will begin noticing the latest versions of El Nino in
December. The phenomenon occurs when ocean temperatures rise and
atmospheric conditions change above the tropical zone of the Pacific
Ocean. Environment Canada says the recurrence of El Nino this time
won't be as catastrophic as five years ago when ice storms struck
central and eastern Canada
Mar 7th 2002 cnn El Nino 2002: How big a punch? (CNN) -- "El Nino" has arrived.
Scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, report that surface temperatures of the Pacific Ocean near the South American coast warmed 4 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) in February. That is a strong sign that the Pacific is headed for an El Nino condition that could last more than a year.
Monday Feb 18, 2002 cbc EL NINO MAY BE ON THE HORIZON
Another relatively mild, snow-free winter could be on the way for Canada
and the northern United States next year, meteorologists said Saturday.
Tuesday Jan 29, 2002 cbc NEW MAP SHOWS LIGHTNING LOVES AFRICA
Lightning loves striking the Himalayas and central Africa, but not the
Sahara. It avoids the ocean, but hits Florida and Colombia frequently.
Not only can lightning strike the same place twice, but it prefers some
parts of the world over others, according to a new satellite map.
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BBC
Climate change Hot models
PRAIRIE DROUGHT WORST WEATHER STORY OF 2002
CLIMATE CHANGE MAY THREATEN REINDEER, CARIBOU 
CHILLY OCTOBER SETS PRAIRIE RECORDS
ANOTHER EL NINO IS HERE, EXPERTS SAY
HURRICANE LILI DRENCHES SOUTHERN U.S.
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