Long Weekend Weather: how it begins
Happy holiday weekend! Let’s start off with the good news coming out of cottage country, shall we?
The good: You will not need to worry about pesky black flies, mosquitoes, no-see-ums and the like during your holiday weekend! The reason is that it’s been too cold at night for the little and not-so-little suckers to evolve (or whatever they do). So, no bugs over the long weekend. Yay! (The official bug reports begin June 1st.)
To sum up the entire three-day weekend: Monday is your best bet with no rain and a high of 55°F.
Saturday there will be rain-to-light rain and a high of 60°F. By evening on Saturday expect the rain to stop and temperatures to drop sharply– down to 35°F with a “feels like” temperature Saturday night of 27°F!!!
Tonight, Friday night, it will only go down to 57°F with cloudiness so perhaps an evening stroll would be nice?
So that was the holiday weekend. Getting back to the regular week which begins on Tuesday, you can look forward to more rain (sorry) and temperatures of 50°F for a daytime high. Wednesday, expect cloudy periods and a moderate high of 55°F. The rain is back again on Thursday, expect isolated showers with a very nice high of 75°F! Friday brings full-on clouds with showers and another nice high of 69°F.
The 2-week extended forecast is below so you can see that things will be drying out and looking up. Have a great long weekend and week!
Kincardine Harbour Marina, Lake Erie, Ontario
Kincardine Channel, Penetangore River, Lake Erie, Ontario
As a Canadian ex-pat who married an American and is currently raising my youngest son in the Chicago area, I must admit that there are times when I just ache to get a glimpse of my beloved homeland Ontario, Canada
Though I long ago left my birthplace Toronto, (my father was transferred here when I was a child) I’ve continued to enjoy a spot in Haliburton County that my family has owned for going on 70 years.
Once a week or so I pick through the webcam shots which are available through the Ontario Weather Network and I click to the areas that are closest to our cottage with the hope that I’ll get an approximate glimpse of an area much like ours. Every time I’m disappointed and disheartened by what I see–which is very unlike what I see in person when I come to stay each summer in the gorgeous Haliburton Highlands.
The area that is closest to our cottage geographically is the town of Haliburton, 12 miles from our lake.
The webcam for Haliburton is hosted by Halcom Communications Ltd. where one must often click through to their advertisements before getting a glimpse of the webcam shot.
Unfortunately, I’ve never seen a webcam shot of Haliburton that wasn’t out of focus. The person representing Halcom Communications Ltd. who set up the camera overreached and the camera is insufficient to render the entire top half of the webcam shot as anything but a haze, on my screen currently, a purple haze. The camera also to put this charitably, is at such an angle that Haliburton’s best side is not showing. It is also at such an angle that I feel compelled to adjust it.
This would not be the end of the world though no matter what, it is an exercise in waste of resources but Haliburton County depends on people realizing what a jewel it is and visiting –perhaps for an extended stay?
What’s the best advertisement for Haliburton County? Haliburton County itself! And if you cannot see the county in person, a webcam image like the ones below (except the Haliburton one) should capture the area so you get a general feeling of it’s great attractiveness.
Though I have emailed Halcom Communications Ltd and politely asked them to adjust their webcam, I have gotten no reply and worse, there’s’ been no change in the quality of the webcam image.
To sum up, Halcom Communications Ltd does a terrible job of representing Haliburton and thus Haliburton County with their poor webcam image that the entire world is privy to via The Weather Network webcam feature.
Halcom Communications Ltd. takes full advantage of offering it’s crummy webcam feed to flog their services to the public yet gives virtually nothing in encouraging folks to visit Haliburton County.
I know first hand that there are some wonderful professional photographers in Haliburton and I urge anyone that cares about contributing to the economic health of Haliburton County to alert them to this wasted opportunity to promote the town and county and at the same time their services. A number of town like Barrie for example have more than one webcam image ( Barrie has 4!)
Please, pro photographer or amateur please consider adding your webcam feed of the beautiful Haliburton Highlands to the Ontario Weather Network. It is in fact free advertising that can potentially reach millions of people. All you have to do is care enough to show off the place you live.
Thanks!
Please note: both Kincardine photos are showing as pixelated because the originals are small. I should not have included them in the gallery but I love these areas–so excuse, please. The main point was for you to see Haliburton, which is offered as a large image by Halcom and contrast that with Reach Harbour in Lakefield, Ontario which is a very good, large webcam shot.
At top is how Kincardine is supposed to be viewed, I have enlargef them slightly which is causing a bit of pixelaton but even so, there is far more detail in their small shots of the harbour than the ginormous one taken of Haliburton by Halcom.
