Hurricane Preparedness: No Such Thing as Too Much Planning
Recreational boaters in Eastern Canada will remember names like Luis, Bertha, Hortense, Gustav, Juan, Ophelia, Noel, Kyle, Earl, Igor, Leslie, Arthur, Matthew, Dorian and Teddy.
These, of course, are not names of your recent dinner party guests, but some of the hurricanes and post-tropical storms that have made landfall in our little corner of the Atlantic Ocean.
Even as this commentary is being penned, recreational boaters in eastern Newfoundland are anxiously watching the track of ...
Batten Down the Hatches
You don’t have to be a master mariner to realize that weather patterns are changing — and unfortunately, not for the better.
Climate change, yes Mr. Trump it is a real thing, has been turning Atlantic Canadian weather patterns on its head for the last decade or so. Storms are more frequent and becoming more intense. And for many Atlantic Canadian boaters, hurricane season is now part of their marine vocabulary.
The Dartmouth-based Canadian Hurricane Centre is predicting that you ...
