How to observe brilliant stars

This is a hastily put together blog on how to observe brilliant stars.

15 June great dawn

Wow I woke up way too early on this day.

Halifax storms part 2: New Years Day snow squall

1 January 2015

The new year began with a bang with a heavy snow squall that gave Halifax the first of many snow related headaches.

Halifax Storms part 1: Record Christmas warmth

25 December 2014

This ‘Halifax Storms’ series of blogs will briefly summarize some of the significant storm events I experienced during my time in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from December 2014 through April 2015.

Fountains and fog, a 24 hour wander in Canberra

My final day and night (Sat 6 June through Sun 7 June 2015 morning) in Canberra was a bit exhausting as I had decided not to get a hotel and rather just wing it through the night.

Comparing thunderstorm time-lapses with simulations

“Hector the Convector” is the name given to a thunderstorm that forms over the Tiwi Islands off the north coast of Australia near Darwin. I have tried some test Weather Research and Forecast (WRF, http://www.wrf-model.org ) simulations to see how nice a thunderstorm is produced.

Halifax snow pile melt

At the end of one of the snowiest March (2015) on record the snow in Halifax finally began to melt. I took pictures at a few particular locations on my walk to Dalhousie Uni to document the snow melt.

Time-lapses of Spirit of Tasmania

On the evening of 30 May 2015 I biked down to Port Melbourne to try out the Ricoh GR with a time-lapse of the Spirit of Tasmania leaving. Below is the resulting video.

Canadian weather links

Welcome to my blog

Hi

My name is Chris Chambers. The name of the blog is “youstorm”, a silly name that I gave a (now defunct) weather website.