This talk is part of the ALLways Learning Series, which invites ALL members and members of our local community to join us for a free, casual lecture each Friday during the academic year (formerly Lunchtime Learning Series).

Abstract: In this presentation I will cover a wide range of weather and weather-related phenomenon that you may have heard about but was never explained.  I will have a special focus section on hurricanes with a bit of history on noteworthy storms from the past that affected our region.  No presentation about weather is complete without touching on some frequently asked questions that we receive at the weather office and ones I often answer when interviewed by the media and on my social media accounts.     

Biography:  Chris has been studying all aspects of weather including his specialty ‘the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones’ for his entire career which began at McGill University in the late 1990s where he completed his Masters degree – A Climatology of Extratropical Transition in the North Atlantic Ocean.  He was then hired by Environment Canada, first working as a forecaster in Newfoundland then joining the Canadian Hurricane Centre team in 2002.  Chris obtained a PhD in numerical modelling of extratropical transition at Dalhousie University in 2006 and became manager of the CHC in 2010.