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Because Nova Scotia juts out into the Atlantic, it is prone to intense cold-season storms ("nor'easters" - primarily November to March) arriving from the Northeastern United States, and occasional tropical storms and hurricanes in late summer and autumn. However, due to the relatively cooler waters off the coast of Nova Scotia, tropical storms ...
Atlantic Canada has been hit with many storms, with the ones that do hit usually being weak storms, due to the generally cool waters offshore. Some hurricanes can strike the area full force as the warm Gulf Stream extends fairly close to Atlantic Canada. Due to the cool waters for a great distance from the Pacific coast of Canada, there has ...
The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC; French: Service météorologique du Canada – SMC) is a branch of Environment and Climate Change Canada, which primarily provides public meteorological information and weather forecasts and warnings of severe weather and other environmental hazards.
Franklin will gain strength and become a hurricane for the first time this weekend, before making a close pass near Bermuda early next week and an encounter with Atlantic Canada later next week ...
Four people are missing after intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Canada’s Atlantic-coast province of Nova Scotia over the past two days, causing flash ...
Atlantic Canada was reeling Sunday after the downgraded Hurricane Fiona swept away houses — and at least one person — and cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people across several ...
Climate change is greatly impacting Canada's environment and landscapes. Extreme weather has become more frequent and severe because of the continued release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The number of climate change–related events, such as the 2021 British Columbia Floods and an increasing number of forest fires , has become an ...
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC; French: Environnement et Changement climatique Canada) [NB 1] is the department of the Government of Canada responsible for coordinating environmental policies and programs, as well as preserving and enhancing the natural environment and renewable resources.