Month: September 2013
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Torrential rain. Here and elsewhere
A short update. Now that’s rain: Yesterday we got caught in another thunderstorm, the third in the past few weeks. And this time it came with impressive rainfall. We received at Alberniweather 12mm of rain.. Which isnt much. But, we got it in a hurry. As the graph below shows. The rain rate hit 59mm/hr.…
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Summer ends with a bang. Wet final days.
This picture comes courtesy of Heather Mollet. We got yesterday one of the strongest thunderstorms I remember here and I’ve heard a few others say the same anecdotally. Certainly compared to the storms I got to experience in Mexico in July, this one seemed to be a pretty good effort! There were more than a…
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Motorcycle Thunder Saturday, Real Thing Sunday
Unlike Wednesdsy where we overshot our forecast high, on Thursday we just didn’t get there. It got to 28.9C at the Airport and only 27C here at Alberniweather. The forecast and the record, was 31C. The record for today is 31.9C. We are forecast to get to 30C today and tomorrow. The fog is reasonably…
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More than Thirty records broken. More coming. Plus Thunder Sunday.
Of around 110 official stations in BC, I count 37 that set new record highs for September 11. There is a lot of red on the Environment Canada summary page this morning. There is a highlight list here as well from Environment Canada. Port Alberni was not one of those record breakers but we were…
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Sun sun sun until Sunday.
Not much to say! It’s beautiful outside. There isn’t even any fog. Check out the time lapse from yesterday to see the fog clearing, the stars, the moon. Pretty fun. This should last until Sunday, but I’ll hold off on any major predictions until tomorrow. ENJOY!