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Cold lows used to be just a spring event when a large upper trough would form over the eastern portions of North America. Now with the weakening jet stream, these challenging weather patterns have shifted more into June. The air mass in the cold trough is unstable due to the colder temperatures aloft. Daytime heating is required to ignite the instability which is focused along radials rotating around the cold low very much like spokes on a wheel. Along a spoke, showers and thunderstorms are likely during the afternoon and early evening. Between the spokes the sun is tends to appear and the optimistic might think that the rain is over for the day. The forecast must be very flexible with a cold low since the conditions vary so wildly.

The sun was just coming up in the eastern horizon and I liked the milky colour to the west. A few locations to the west were actually seeing the sun through the mainly overcast layer of cold air mass stratocumulus. Seventy-two years ago, the allie...

I paint outside - nothing between my eyes and the inspiration. That special connectivity gets into the pigments and you quickly realize that we are all stewards of the land, privileged to appreciate its beauty during our lifetime but responsible for leaving the environment better off for the future and all inhabitants... Phil was born and raised along the St. Lawrence of Ontario, Canada and studied at Queens University as a nuclear physicist. A meteorologist for Environment Canada for 35 years, Phil specializes in severe weather and training. Remote sensing is his forte - you might want to see a tornado before you die... but not just before you die! He has farmed, raised bees, written books and articles, lectured and instructed...