A Hot Province Waiting

It has been a very hot August - September transition and we are just beginning to see the weather break with some rain in the north.

The province has been through a long summer and it is clear that the trees and plants have had enough. The leaves are a tattered, tired bleached green just waiting for the chlorphyll to drain away. The webcamera images themselves are a faded overexposed collection. This is my favorite from today ...

They say that a hurricane is coming. Perhaps that will generate some change and renewal. We can only wait and hope.

From HWY030910

This is what the province looks like today.

Problems on the Copp Loop Road

It would appear that there was an accident on the Copp Loop Road this morning. The highway camera for that road is on a summer schedule for image capture so only one image per hour of the event was recording. It is a shame that the camera does not keep an archive like the other ones.

In other news, Fredericton has activated a new camera on the Westmorland Street Bridge to monitor traffic flow while the second river crossing at Fredericton is closed.

The webcamera monitoring site by Wetmore found the Fredericton airport cameras and they give a dramatic fisheye view of the sky around the airport.




I like these webcamera images from the past few days.

Still Empty Roads but now it is all Green

So, this is what the province looked like on Canada Day 2010.

I have no idea why people are looking at this site because the images are old and the links are cold. If you want a good look at the NBV web cameras you need to go to the Wetmore webpage. This is the link: http://wetmore.ca/cams/ to my eyes the only significant webcameras that are missed are the ones at Crandall University and the Confederation Bridge to PEI

Lotta changes since my last update. Fredericton is constantly fooling with their cameras. There was a lot of action at the Old Train Station throught the worst of the winter and then everything stopped once they replaced the roof.

I was driving between Fredericton and Moncton last week and I saw a couple of work areas that looked like the same towers they use for the road conditions / highway cameras so there may be more cameras from the MRDC highway.

I guess this is my favorite recent image.

A Dark and Forbidding Land

The first real province - wide storm is hitting us now.

From HWY020110

To my eyes the web cameras are holding up nicely as the storm and darkness falls.



I like a few of these images. I see that Fredericton has decided to re-task the camera it had on the firestation construction and now provides a view of the city. I only noticed it late this afternoon and the image is poor but it will be a winner in the summer.

From HWY020110

It is clear that in some locations the roads are getting pretty bad and you see convoys lined up behind snow plows.

From HWY020110

We will see what the morning brings.

An Undiscovered Country

It seems that I have completely missed a number of webcameras in the Saint John Area. There seems to be a recent webpage created that gives much better webcamera overview of the Saint John Area that I have.

http://wetmore.ca/camera/

The site itself has two cameras that have copyrighted images so they are not reproduced here. The images are big and clear and even have an archive that go back 10 days so this is an important new resource for those of us interested in the provinces webcameras.

The site also has links to web cameras that I have missed including the Saint John Harbour Bridge Authority (two cameras with a view of the bridge approaches), the yacht club, highschool web cameras in the Saint John area and a private web camera of someones back yard. Cool, all cool.

MRDC has managed to bring all of its cameras to life even the wonky one at Magnetic Hill but they still suffer from inclement weather and are pointed in unfortunate view angles.

Sometimes Even Robots can See

Saw this from the new Dubee camera this morning. I like how the image is textured due to the light levels and camera settings.

We had a storm blow through last night that was not as bad as expected but pretty much left every camera looking at snow. I guess the season has officially changed, now instead of empty roads between fields and forests the cameras show mostly empty roads between snow covered fields and forests.

First Snow Storm of the Year

The first real snowstorm of the year rolled through without much warming last night. As expected the MRDC cameras got shots of the snowplows.





I really like the tandem snow plow shot from Mill Cove but what is that object behind the lead plow?

In any event for the most part the cameras worked as expected but MRDC lost Salisbury and the Bridge camera and Moncton lost a camera. This is what the province looked like this afternoon.