OUR HISTORY: April 19, 1962

Our April 26, 1962 issue reported on ice jams and flash floods in southern and western Manitoba, conditions in stark contrast to the news item below, which was on slow pasture recovery following the drought of 1961, the driest year on record in Western Canada. Accordingly, another story reported that on-farm grain stocks were the

U.S. flood risk low, but droughts, wildfires could continue

Reuters / No area of the United States faces a high risk of major flooding this spring for the first time in four years, but continuing drought across the southern and western parts of the country could lead to wildfires, U.S. government forecasters said March 15. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its


Riverbanks overflow in Australian outback

sydney/reuters/ Thousands of Australians were cut off by flood waters Feb. 4 as heavy rain broke riverbanks across the vast eastern outback and some families battled with deadly snakes for rooftops, rescuers said. More than 11,000 people in Queensland state alone have been isolated a year after flash floods across Queensland and New South Wales

Top global weather stories for 2011

Ask and you shall receive. I asked you, the readers, to send in any questions you would like me to answer and over the last couple of weeks I have received a record number of questions. For those of you who sent in a question I will either email you back an answer right away,


Your Walls Are Your Canvas

get creative! PAINT There are many ways to change the look of a room without doing any major renovations. Here s a few ideas to get you started, then look around the house and Like the two-toned paint treatment in the photo, there are thousands of potential colour and pattern combinations using simple paint techniques.

Recipe Swap – for Jul. 21, 2011

You may recall seeing an invitation on these pages this spring to send us a “fruity story.” We received loads of wonderful short stories from you about your berry-picking experiences and adventures and thank you all for writing to us. Notably, every story we received was handwritten and all are about adventures out picking wild


Different Forms Of Lightning

After taking a little break from our look at severe summer weather I figured it was time to pick up where we left off back in early May. In our last article on severe summer weather we took a technical look at lightning and I ended that article by letting you know we would take

Bin Sensors

POINT LEVEL PROBES Probes are inserted through bin walls and sensors to detect fill levels in a bin, tank, silo or other container. Display units outside the bins allow you to read the fill level from the outside, and the stainless steel probes come in a variety of lengths up to 68 inches (or up


A Technical Look At Lightning

Iknow I mentioned in my last severe weather article that I would be doing a detailed discussion about tornadoes sometime soon, but that sometime is not this week. Instead, I’ve decided to look at a particular aspect of thunderstorms that everyone has seen, can be deadly but rarely is, and is probably one of the

Delaying The Drainage

As Manitoba braces for what could be another Flood of the Century a mere 14 years after the last one, the calls are mounting across the province for governments to do something about this province’s ongoing and seasonal excess moisture situation. It doesn’t help that Manitoba has had significant floods in 2001, 2002, 2006, 2009