After six months of planning and talking about it. Canada’s very own podcast to talk about all things weather. Meet your hosts Jerry and Daniel as they talk about current weather across Canada and then find out what happened when Tropical Storm Lidia trapped Daniel in Mexico. Would you know what to do when the water starts rising and you are left to your own instincts to survive?
General Chat About Wx in Canada
BC Flood conditions are starting to wind down in south-central British Columbia.
The prolonged period of hot weather has escalated snow melt causing typical flood threats into a widespread emergency.
Folks now starting to go home in South Central BC but there still some lingering flood threats. Canadian Forces troops were called in.
Wind Event in Azilda reported by Sudbury Star.
Thursday afternoon, May 18, reports of debris flying through the air near Notre Dame St around 3:50 p.m. Witnesses say they saw a funnel carrying an object, which turned out to be a trampoline, dropped in the middle of Notre Dame Street.
No damage to houses or trees or vehicles, and no injuries were reported and Environment and Climate Change Canada were surprised to hear about the event.
Cold weather is on the way for Newfoundland where winter isn’t quite done.  Thursday could bring snow to our neighbours on the east coast.
Hurricane Season Arriving Early? A broad surface low-pressure area has formed over the northwestern Caribbean Sea a couple of hundred miles east of the coast of Belize. Tropical development is possible later this week while the system moves slowly northward into the central or eastern Gulf of Mexico.
ECMWF shows a weak tropical storm into New Orleans region while GGEM and GFS have something similar but further east along the Gulf coast.
Interview with Daniel Liota
TS Lidia developed from a large area of disturbed weather west of the Pacific Coast of Mexico on Thursday, August 31. The storm intensified while moving generally northward or northwestward, peaking with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) later that day.
On that Thursday, Lidia passed within 25km of Daniel in Cabo San Lucas and started him on an unexpected journey that put his life at risk.
Listen to Daniel explain the lack of information ahead of the storm event and the remarkable actions that left him search higher ground to avoid being swept into the ocean.
Jerry’s Weather Tip of the Week
“Be Prepared: The Frankie MacDonald Guide to Life, the Weather, and Everything”, comes out from Nimbus Publishing on June 15. The book is written for children.
The book covers mental disabilities, bullying, technology, and what we know Frankie loves – the weather.
Once you get past Frankie’s dynamic Youtube videos there is an underlying passion. A passion I relate to and a passion that has driven both of us to learn all we can about the weather around us.
https://www.amazon.ca/Be-Prepared-Frankie-MacDonald-Everything/dp/1771085754
Daniel’s Weather Tip of the Week
These webinars are peer-to-peer learning; staff from WFOs, National Centers, CWSUs, RFCs lead the presentations. The presentations are short (less than 30 minutes) and recorded for on-demand viewing. They are offered on a routine basis (bi-weekly) and offer recent in-season examples ready to apply operationally. The primary objective of these webinars are to share how to apply GOES-16 imagery with other datasets for a specific operational application so that other WFO’s learn how to do this.
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/training/visit/satellite_chat/