Year: 2012

  • Irony: first day of rain in weeks… Backyard burning ban goes into effect

    We are getting a short break from the hot summer weather. The showers will be with us today and most of tomorrow as well. We can expect the warm weather to return late Sunday or on Monday. I’ll be away until at least Monday so enjoy your weekend! Almost forgot to include the open fire…

  • Congratulations Dean!

    Congratulations to Dean for winning the 2012 Summer Heat Contest! Dean has won a basket of goodies from Healthy Habits down at the Victoria Quay! Go check them out, they have cool stuff :+) – Healthy Habits – #5 – 4505 Victoria Quay Port Alberni, BC V9Y-6G2 Ph.(250)724-6280 http://www3.telus.net/public/hhabits/ As for the weather: This will…

  • WE HAVE A WINNER! — SUMMER HEAT CONTEST 2012 – When Will we hit 30C?

    We finally have a winner for the 2012 Alberniweather Summer Heat Contest. Today at 15:26 (3:26PM) we finally crossed the 30C threshold and the station hit 30.17C and … ummm… “H992172” became our winner. Now if that person doesn’t turn out to be real (they have a real email address and made a coherent entry…

  • Still haven’t hit 30C! Solar show tonight?

    Amazingly we still haven’t hit 30C here on the Alberniweather station. We came closest yesterday (Friday) when we got up to 29.67C. Bill missed out on the prize by 0.38C of a degree. 🙂 No it looks like Crystal is going to have the best chance at it though we’re not forecast to go more…

  • Hot Hot Hot Contests and some more Smoke info

    It seems inevitable that someone is going to win the 30C Contest in the next couple days. The only question is who! No one actually guessed today’s date, so it looks like it will be a battle between Phil who guessed yesterday at 3:30PM and BillB who guessed tomorrow at 3:35PM so that means if…