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Future of CanadianWeather.org


Many users of the site and forums will have noticed that of late, the website and forum has suffered from a lack of input and attention. As the owner and developer of the site, I can only hold my hands up and apologise for the way the site has drifted away into obscurity.

I have run this site for almost seven years...

We experienced a hard drive failure on the server that generates our in-house analysis charts. As we co-locate this particular server we had to wait for a new drive to be shipped to Chicago. The hard drive is scheduled to be installed tomorrow, a new OS will be installed and we hope to get the analysis products back up and running by late Sunday...

ECO Canada is partnering with CMOS and Environment Canada in a project aimed to compile National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Meteorologists and Meteorological Technicians in Canada. The end goal of this project is to develop a standard national certification program for meteorological practitioners through CECAB (...

Couple of new additions online this evening.

Snow and freezing rain (icing) 1, 2 and 3 day forecast
http://www.canadianw...=snowprob&day=1

We have also made use of HPC coverage of southern Canada to offer these medium range temperature and precipitation outlooks
http://www.canadianw...=610&what=temps

We`re looking at a way to depict snow on ground observations either in map format or through text reports. There seems to be a lack of Canadian snow reports available on the worldwide web , hopefully we can fill that hole. EC does provide analysis however I find their maps to be cluttered making individual stations hard to see.