I spend a lot of my time on the internet. Much of that time is spend checking the local weather via the Canadian Weather Radar service. Some time this year, one or two of the weather radar stations seems to have stopped reporting data on this page. As a result, a swath of PEI (née Epekwitk) and Nova Scotia is in a radar dead-zone. What gives?

UPDATE: As per this helpful comment from Isa, the Chipman – CASCM radar station (near Fredericton, New Brunswick) is having an “Unscheduled outage” and is expect to return on June 9, 2021 (a few days from the writing of this post).

UPDATE UPDATE: It turns out there are two simultaneous outages that I’m conflating here. The Chipman CASCM station mentioned above comes back online in a couple of days, but according to the CBC, the Halifax radar station will be offline until the end of August.

While we’re on the topic, there are a few other interesting things to note on this page:

• A recent redesign of this page added many improvements, but also made the large map area something with zooming and panning, which interferes with regular scrolling on the page (you have to make sure your cursor isn’t over the large map before scrolling).
• That long narrow rectangle-with-blob near the top right is the geopolitical peculiarity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a territory of France off of the Canadian province of Newfoundland.