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2020 Arctic Summer Seasonal Climate Outlook for Sea-Ice

Written on July 5, 2020.

– By contributors from Environment and Climate Change Canada, the University of Québec at Montréal, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, the Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia, The...

2020 Arctic Summer Seasonal Climate Outlook for Temperature and Precipitation

Written on June 30, 2020.

– By contributors from Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, the Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia, The Norwegian Meteorological Institute,...

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...

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...

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Message from the CMOS President: Resilience and Possibility in Challenging Times

Written on March 30, 2020.

– By Kimberly Strong, CMOS President and Professor & Chair, Department of Physics, University of Toronto – Dear CMOS Friends and Colleagues, As we go ‘to press’ with this issue of the CMOS...

Seasonal Outlook for the spring 2020 (MAM) based on the official CanSIPS forecast issued on the 28th Feb. 2020

Written on March 22, 2020.

– By M. Markovic, B. Merryfield, M. Alarie, Environment and Climate Change Canada – Seasonal Outlook for Spring 2020 (March, April, May) in Canada is for elevated temperatures in eastern Canada...