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has spotted a drop of rain a sudden snowfall will see him hurry but to the back yard armed with a ruler to measure the depth of the precipitation channon is not an eccentric hes a handson weather watcher for environment canada ive always been interested in weather since i was a high school student recollects channon he is seated comfortably in his living room as he reflects back over the past 45 years as a volunteer watcher of weather patterns over his home in richmond hill on the coffee table in front of him is a plaque of which he is especially proud it was presented to him by bryan smith of environment canada at a recent special ceremony and recognizes his years of dedicated volunteer service every morning finds him getting up and check ing out the weather i go out twice a day once in the morning at 730 am and again at 6 pm all year round his faithful outings find him going out into his back yard where he keeps a boxlike weather sta tion home to a variety of thermometers the station shelters the thermometers from the rays of the sun so you can get an accurate true reading he holds up the various thermometers includ ing one for maximum temperatures as well as one for minimum readings there is also a nearby rain gauge sitting on the lawn channon acknowledges his neighbours might have once looked at him somewhat askance as he went on his daily forays to his weather station especially when he took his ruler out and mea sured the depth of the snow but ive lived in richmondhill since 1958 and they know what im up to by now he says mondays ice storm was an exciting moment for channon the ice collected in his gauge and he later removed it to his sink where the ice melted and he could measure its water equivalent i also write general notes on the weather he continues it may be that some weather system has gone through or a tree has blown down i will mark that down he can also produce a welter of weather statis tics going back to day one showing what days hold the record for being the wettest or the driest or hav ing the heaviest snowfall and almost anything else pertaining to the weather the beginning of every month finds him faith fully filing his results to environment canada let it be said his task is not to be taken lighdy last year st joseph hospital in hamilton used his records to begin a major study on asthma relat ed to climate and agriculture researchers were able to find new locations where specialized crops can be culti vated because channons research showed a pat tern of warmer temperatures in parts of the province previously thought unsuitable channon has no fear his services will be found wanting in the future due to everadvancing tech nology they have their satellite photographs but they only tell you whats happening over a general area but i can tell them whats happening on the ground he says their radar only comes down to maybe 100 or 200 feet above the ground they can tell it may be raining somewhere in richmond hill but they arent sure channon then goes out and discovers its not raining on his parade it may be raining up in the clouds but it has evaporated before it got here thats where i come in of course they could use automatic machines but that would cost more im a volunteer channon is also a down to earth weather observer in case of a sudden storm or heavy rain fall if it hits here i can get on a special hotline and tell them a weather system is heading their way they can put out an alert to people living where the storm is headed he says he got into weather watching strictly by acci dent when he lived near the holland marsh as a teenager my father ran a marina we also had a green house and the weather was always on our minas channon decided to set up his own weather sta tion as a hobby it was then he was told that environment canada was looking for volunteer weather watchers and provided all the equipment free all i had to do was agree to stay with weather watching for at least five years he has made it with a few years to spare