Frankie MacDonald (born April 24, 1984) is a Canadian amateur meteorologist from the Whitney Pier[2] area of Sydney, Nova Scotia.
[8] Weather reports MacDonald has produced include warnings for his home province of Nova Scotia, a snowstorm in Winnipeg, heavy rainfall in Vancouver,[9] a storm in Minnesota,[10] New York, Australia,[8] and Bermuda during Hurricane Gonzalo of 2014.
MacDonald has published over 1,200 videos on YouTube, mostly weather forecasts, but also competitive eating, and how to properly shovel snow.
[19] MacDonald has presented the weather on the CBC[20] and has been featured in an online video series for Nova Scotia Power.
[26] The videos have received both positive (including people thanking him for weather warnings) and negative feedback on YouTube; MacDonald tries to "ignore" the latter, insisting they are "rude and disrespectful.
During the process Sawler consulted with Autism Nova Scotia and with MacDonald and his family to ensure she got everything right and presented it fairly.
[29][30][31] On January 30, 2015, the Halifax daily newspaper The Chronicle Herald published an editorial cartoon by their staff cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon, which featured Frankie MacDonald giving a forecast of the "Massive Boondoggle" of the overbudget reconstruction of the schooner Bluenose II.