Career
MacDonald, who is autistic, is known for his boisterous online weather forecasts. He posts the videos to his YouTube channel (dogsandwolves), where they have received more than 10 million views. He also maintains a Twitter account and blog.
Weather reports MacDonald has produced include warnings for his home province of Nova Scotia, a snowstorm in Winnipeg, heavy rainfall in Vancouver, a storm in Minnesota, New York, Australia, and Bermuda during Hurricane Gonzalo of 2014.
MacDonald was included in Canadian Broadcasting Company News" "Top 10 Newsmaking Stories of 2013 in Nova Scotia". MacDonald was awarded the Vital Cape Breton Excellence Award which honours Cape Breton islanders who have made significant contributions in the community.
MacDonald has had his likeness made into a bobblehead and had his "be prepared" catchphrase featured on clothing. The videos have received both positive (including people thanking him for weather warnings) and negative feedback on YouTube, and MacDonald tries to "ignore" the latter, insisting they are "rude and disrespectful".
The hosts of The Roz & Mocha Show on Toronto"s Kiss 92.5 have been accused of being disrespectful when interviewing MacDonald but they deny this, claiming they are fans of MacDonald.
In 2013, false rumours of his death circulated online. On January 30, 2015, the Halifax, Nova Scotia daily newspaper, The Chronicle Herald, published an editorial cartoon by their staff cartoonist, Bruce MacKinnon, featuring Frankie MacDonald giving a forecast of the "Massive Boondoggle" of the overbudget reconstruction of the schooner Bluenose World War II
