HALIFAX – CBC News At Six has debuted a new, state of the art weather system, as well as a new web presence aimed at delivering storm information to Canadians.
CBC Television in Nova Scotia has launched the new weather system “providing real-time forecasting technology that radically improves how local weather information is presented,” says the press release.
CBC News At Six is the first program in the region to use the TrueView system, one which features realistic images and 3-D perspectives.
“TrueView combines up-to-the-minute radar data from Environment Canada’s radar sites throughout Canada enabling the Corp.’s new weather system “to present weather data at the exact moment it has been observed,” says the release. “TrueView enhances the realism of the weather story by accentuating the time of day and seasonal sunlight variations, which provides the viewer with a real-life view of the day-part forecast.”
“With the high resolution enhancement of this graphics system, I will be better able to pinpoint or isolate weather events, whether they be severe thunderstorms, or areas of heavy snow and high wind,” said Peter Coade, CBC’s meteorologist based in Halifax, in the press release. “I’ll be able to get practically right down to ground level with the name of the communities being displayed. This system will also display the time that an observed event will affect communities in its path.”
In addition to the new television technology, CBC has created a new weather web site at: www.cbc.ca/ns/feature/stormcentre. It’s a guide to closure and cancellation information, road conditions, weather warnings, power outages and flight information, and will also include the latest radio newscasts and comprehensive weather forecasts from Coade.
