1/3🧵: A Golden Winter Landscape - December 31, 21 Years Ago.
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21 years ago today, an 8-year-old band stallion, stood resting in the sunshine on a relatively calm winter afternoon - 15 kt southerly breeze, 3°C. The beach grass, …
1/2🧵: Fall Colour in the Grass. #NorthAtlantic #Atlanticcanada #SableIslandwx #NSwx #fallcolours
It’s windy today – WNW gusting to >50 kts – & there’s a lot of sand blowing about. But in patches sheltered by the tall beach grass, strawberry leaves contribute to the island’s seasonal palette….
1/2🧵: Light Air, Calm Water. #NorthAtlantic #Atlanticcanada #SableIslandwx #NSwx
During the past week very windy conditions (ranging from 35 - >50 kts) have alternated with days of mostly calm, 0 - 5 kts. Shown here in gloomy but still weather, there’s hardly enough breeze to ripple the surface …
1/2🧵: A Belly Scratch. 🌎🌿 #SableIsland #SableIslandwx #NSwx #wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable
Today was pleasant with a light SW breeze of 5-10 kts, & a max temp of 8.4°C. A band stallion, strolling eastward, stopped at driftwood tree trunk on the north beach for a general scratching session – legs, …
1/3🧵: Floodwater and the Stream. 🌎 #SableIslandwx #NSwx
A cool, sunny day on #SableIsland with max temp 7.1°C & NW wind of 20-25 kts. South beach is still flooded, but the water is not as deep & extensive as it was, & is still draining off through the cut at the eastern end of the Sandy Plain….
1/2🧵: A Calm in November. 🌎 #NorthAtlantic #SableIslandwx #NSwx #lighttower
Yesterday, with a clear blue sky, a max temp of 9.1°C , & a NW breeze of only 6-8 kts, it felt like a calm day in late summer on #SableIsland. By mid afternoon clouds began moving across the island, but the wind didn’t …
1/2🧵: Autumn Afternoon. 🌎 #NorthAtlantic #SableIslandwx #NSwx
With a NW wind gusting to 23 kts, heavy, broken cloud, & a max temp of 6.2°C, today was the chilliest so far this fall. A family band of four Sable Island horses stand resting in a marram field. Although the lower parts of the leaves …
1/2🧵: Sable Island Rainbow. 🌎 #NorthAtlantic #SableIslandwx #NSwx
With a SW wind gusting to 28 kts, a max temp of 9.7°C, towering white clouds & occasional light showers, yesterday was a fine day to begin a survey on south beach.
At 9:45 am, during a bright burst of rain, a full #rainbow developed…
3/3: … Almost 6 degrees warmer than it was on Sunday when Rose played this tune for #RemembranceDay.
Video Zoe Lucas (using a cell phone).
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1/2🧵: This Morning’s Sunrise over Soggy South Beach.
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Following the strong winds of a few days ago, much of the wide and deep floodwater has been drained off through the channel at the southeastern end of the Sandy Plain….
1/3🧵: High Winds Make a River. #storm #SableIslandwx
Most of #SableIsland’s south beach was flooded during the November 4th storm. Yesterday a strong northwesterly gusting to 40 kts pushed the floodwater eastward to a point where the water cut through the berm & began draining back into the ocean…
1/4🧵: In the Sable Island Arts Residency Studio #sciart 🐡
With storm winds of >50 kts this morning & continuing 40 kts with bursts of heavy rain & clouds of blowing sand, it has been a day to focus on studio work…. #NorthAtlantic #storm
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2/2: …. a woman from another era, waiting, watching.
Accidental photo Zoe Lucas
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½🧵: Flooded South Beach at #Sunrise #SableIslandwx #NSwx
The wide south beach, where the fixed-wing aircraft usually lands, was flooded during the last storm when big waves swept over the berm. The flooding (seen here at 6:50 am this morning) can persist for a few days or weeks, or drain off ....
4/4: …& with high winds (such as yesterday’s 40-50 kt southwesterlies) sea foam can become airborne, transporting enriching nutrients from marine to terrestrial environments such as the marram dunes along south beach #parkscanada #SableIslandwx
Photo & video Zoe Lucas
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1/4🧵: Notes on a Horse #sciart 🐡
Fine weather yesterday. Mostly sunny with a max temp of 15.9°C, & a 15-20 kt northeasterly. #SableIslandwx #NSwx Rose spent an hour on a high dune overlooking a wide area of shrub-heath vegetation with a cranberry patch at the base of the dune, …. #artistinresidence
2/3: … & sand was airborne. Here Artist in Residence Rose Morrison is being heavily sandblasted as she records the windblown sand grains flying over the surface…..
Photo Zoe Lucas. #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #Atlanticcanada #SableIslandwx #sciart #rosemorrisonmusic #artistinresidence
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Looking back, one more pond with horses… Iris Pond 🌎
On September 27, the max temp was 20.4°C, with a 19 kt NW wind. A family band of four (a stallion, two mares & a foal), & two males, were grazing in & around the shallow pond….(1/5🧵).... #SableIslandwx #NSwx
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Looking back again… At One of the West Light Ponds.
On September 25, the max temperature was 18.8°C, with a 17 kt southerly wind. A family band of eight was resting at the edge of a freshwater pond just west of West Light. (1/2🧵) … #SableIslandwx #NSwx #wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable
Looking back.. last month... A Sunny Day at No2 Pond West.
(1/3🧵) 🌎 #SableIslandwx #NSwx
On September 21, the max temperature was 17.5°C, with a northwesterly peaking at 20 kts, but dropping to 12-14 kts during the bright afternoon. A family band of three, a bay stallion and two females, …
This Morning’s Sunrise, 7:40 am.
The storm has passed, the wind is dropping, & overhead there’s some blue sky between the big clouds. The temperature is a comfortable 12°C.
The water in the foreground is a small freshwater pool just west of the Sable Island Station.... #SableIslandwx (1/2🧵)
2/2: .... Although windy and very loud, it’s not cold. The temperature has been about 12°C for most of the day.
Video Zoe Lucas.
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Sand Everywhere (1/3🧵) 🌎 #SableIslandwx #NSwx
Yesterday was sunny, with a max temp of 20.7°C and a refreshing southwesterly gusting to 21-25 kts. After rolling on a bare patch of ground near a freshwater pond, a #SableIsland stallion is shaking the sand out of his long, thick mane. Photo Zoe Lucas…
Sable Island Sunset.
Last night, a view from the top of a high north beach dune. It was cooler yesterday with max temp 19.6°C. The wind was picking up & gusting to 22 kts SE.
Photo Zoe Lucas.
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Sable Island Socializing (1/3🧵) 🌎🌿 #SableIslandwx #NSwx
Yesterday was a sunny, blue-sky day with a max temp 21.7°C & a SW breeze mostly between 5 - 10 kts. In a valley field towards the west end of the island, two males, a chestnut & a younger bay, are socializing. They are with a group of …
Thinking of Cooler Days on Sable Island (1/2🧵) #NorthAtlantic #SableIslandwx #NSwx #winter
The fog cleared off for a while today, but it was mostly humid and warm (second warmest this month), with a few bursts of heavy rain.
This photo was taken during January or February in the 1990s (Date not ….
A Foggy Sable Morning (1/2🧵) 🌎🌿 #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #SableIslandwx #NSwx #foggy #botany
About 16°C with a S wind of <10 kts, just a breath of a breeze. The landscape is soggy in the fog, the vegetation is dripping with moisture, & creamy white meadow rue flowers are abundant. Other plant….
On South Beach. (1/2🧵) #SableIslandwx #NSwx #wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable
With a SE wind of ~10 kts, & max temp 19.4°C, today was the warmest in July so far. Three Sable Island horses who were walking eastward into the breeze stopped at the water’s edge to look at some horses behind them and …..
Fog, Sea, Sand. (1/2🧵) 🌎🌿🦑 #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #SableIslandwx #NSwx #sableislandnpr
Waves coming in along Sable Island’s north beach. This morning on this small section of shoreline, there’s nothing visible washing ashore, no seaweed, driftwood, feathers, bones, bottles, or #plasticdebris …
