Author: Alberniweather Blog (Chris)

  • Wildfire centre bans all fires larger than campfires starting at Noon

    Wildfire centre bans all fires larger than campfires starting at Noon

    The BC Wildfire Service announced a ban on all Category 2 fires starting at noon Friday.  See the image below to see their categories. This means anything larger than a campfire is restricted in the Coastal fire centre except the Fog Zone on the West Coast (purple below). This is the same type of ban as is…

  • Chance of showers today but mostly dry and warm

    Chance of showers today but mostly dry and warm

    We should continue to expect it to be mostly dry and warm from now through to Tuesday, however, there are some bands of light showers in the area as you can see from the tweet below. Dry models but data don't lie #YVR. Perhaps a few sprinkles this am. pic.twitter.com/BhmhUC91n7 — Chris Doyle (@ensembleator) May…

  • Warm and Dry week.  Should you camp this weekend or May Long? :)

    Warm and Dry week. Should you camp this weekend or May Long? 🙂

    Update: Got to see the #Mercurytransit! https://twitter.com/alberniweather/status/729734237163651072 A perfect morning! It is going to be warm and dry and mainly sunny for at least the next 7 days.  However, the real question is, should you go for that camping trip with the kids this coming 4 day weekend (in SD70, Pro Day Friday 13th and Curriculum…

  • April 2016 Summary – Way above average temps. Stretch of Hot weather has fire danger picking up.

    April 2016 Summary – Way above average temps. Stretch of Hot weather has fire danger picking up.

    Well above average April in temperature.  Much lower than normal precipitation.  A dry, warm outlook. It is going to be a hot dry weekend and that is just a continuation of what we saw in April. We set a whole raft of new short term temperature records (seven) at the Airport but did not quite manage to set…

  • Heat returning for weekend. Weather data of Devastating Ft Mac Fire

    Heat returning for weekend. Weather data of Devastating Ft Mac Fire

    First: Please donate to the Red Cross to help the thousands of refugees that are now in need. It really is like a war zone. For our area, a brief bit of rain yesterday actually delivered slightly more than UWash forecasted, but still just 3mm over the past 24 hours. We will now shift back to a dry…