Watching the Port Alberni Weather since 2005

Public Forum today – 7PM at Char’s Landing – When Smoke Clears: Wildfire Risks and Mitigation

Just a quick note to let you know I will be on the panel this evening at the forum hosted by Alberni Valley Transition Town Society titled “When Smoke Clears: Wildfire Risks and Mitigation”.

This is in response to the Alberni Inlet wildfire last year and other nearby wildfires of late. There will be representatives from the ACRD, Island Health and BCWildfire as well as hopefully our MP Gord Johns and Tseshaht Chief Councillor Wawmeesh Ken Watts.

I’ll be on the panel as a member of AVTTS and to bring some information about climate change and weather patterns in the Alberni Valley. I’ve prepared a very short presentation which you can see here.

With the data and trends at hand, I believe our warming trends will continue and that we will record a temperature of 50ºC in the Alberni Valley before 2100. Demonstrated in the slide below.

Hope to see you there!

The Environment and Climate Change Canada webpage for their Adjusted and Harmonized Canadian Climate Data is broken. The links for the actual data go nowhere. However, after a little digging around their web pages, I was able to find and download them. Port Alberni is only included in the datasets for temperature. It looks like they have not completed the process for the precipitation, surface pressure or wind.

Here are their unmodified text data files for Port Alberni. These currently cover from 1900 to 2023.

Here are the full zip files of each temperature set for all stations. (The zips are about 35MB each)

You can get the station list here to match names to their numbers.

Here are the graphs for Port Alberni that ECCC have produced to show the annual averages for the three temperature values, daily high, daily minimum, and daily mean temperatures.