Last flip of the chalk

Canada's most famous weatherman - actually the first weatherman - has passed away. For those of us old enough to remember him, you will really have only one memory of Percy Saltzman: flipping the chalk.

As he gave the forecast, he wrote furiously on a Canada-shaped chalkboard, and would finish by turning around, and flipping his piece of chalk high into the air without looking at his hand. I remember trying to do that at school with the teacher's chalk, and never really managing to do it.

He died at ninety one years of age. Amazingly enough, he was a blogger. And a very active one!