Read about it here.

I wasn't expecting to personally experience the effects of Cristobal, but look at the gully erosion on my road! The CBC also reported a story about a man whose boat capsized just south of Halifax.

This image was compiled by the folks at Weather Wunderground, which has one of the best tropical storm sites (in terms of graphics and imagery anyway). Even though the eye of this storm will remain off the coast, as you can see from this image (as of 11pm AST Monday), we will certainly be feeling its' effects. The heavy rainfall warning remains in effect. Thankfully there are not any tropical storm warnings issued, which would also mean high winds.

The track is taking this storm just off the coast of Nova Scotia, which is good, although a heayv rainfall warning has been issued by Environment Canada . This will be our first taste of the tropical storm season of 2008. CBC News is reporting about it already.

There is a warm front moving through Nova Scotia tomorrow (Monday, July 21) that should not be confused with the forth-coming impacts from Tropical Storm Cristobal. This warm front will bring lots of rain to parts of Nova Scotia on Monday. We should start to have rain and gusty winds associated with Cristobal into Tuesday. The track has it going straight through Halifax, but it is not expected to intensify. We've seen that tropical storms can have significant impacts, however (e.g. Noel in November, 2007). I'll be posting more about this system later today and into tomorrow.

Read about it here and here.

There's lots of time before this system even comes anywhere close to a landmass (e.g. end of next week), but I'll be posting about it here and updating what is going on with this storm. You can also track it here.