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Ontario’s Coldest Temperature Revisited: Setting the Record Straight

Written on June 25, 2020.

– By Bryan Smith – How accurate are Canada’s weather records? The case of Ontario’s all-time record low temperature casts some doubt. Canadians have free access to one of the most...

CMOS Recognizes 2020 Awards Winners at Virtual Congress

Written on June 22, 2020.

OTTAWA, June 12, 2020/ As part of its Alternative Congress and leading up to its Annual General Meeting (AGM), the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS.ca) is pleased to announce...

CMOS Statement on Racism: A Time to Act

Written on June 9, 2020.

We witness with anguish the violent and fatal results of endemic anti-Black racism within the institutions of law enforcement in the United States, Canada, and worldwide. The subsequent tributes...

CMOS Bulletin
Vol.48 No.2, May 2020

Written on May 31, 2020.

Message from the CMOS President: Alternative Congress & Virtual Sessions

Written on May 18, 2020.

– By Kimberly Strong, CMOS President and Professor & Chair, Department of Physics, University of Toronto – Dear CMOS Friends and Colleagues, Over the last two months, we have all had to...

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Air Pollution in the Time of COVID-19

Written on May 6, 2020.

– By D.G. Steyn, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., and Kyle Howe, Air Quality and Climate Change, Metro Vancouver...

Visibility Forecast in Wildfire Smoke: An August 2018 Case Study

Written on April 27, 2020.

– By Yimei Li, Canadian Meteorological Aviation Centre, Environment and Climate Change Canada – In recent years, wildfire smoke has become an increasingly alarming natural disaster in...

Blue Sky Blues or the Three Degrees of Aircraft Pollution

Written on April 10, 2020.

– By Phil Chadwick – The title of this 2012 painting below, numbered 1260 in my artistic journey, is “Three Degrees”. That title might sound cryptic. Let me explain. All...

Cancellation of the 54th CMOS Congress

Written on April 6, 2020.

Dear CMOS members and CMOS Congress participants, the 54th Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), scheduled for May 24-28, 2020 in Ottawa, has been cancelled....