Author: Alberniweather
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Back from the Cape and into the Boiler! Heat this week.
It has already been hot for the past week but it is about to get hotter. If you check out the weekly data page on the Almanac you can see our progression over the past seven days. Here is the temperature for that period: You can see we got to 33.6°C last Monday and then…
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Hottest days of the year coming – including on the North Island!
I’ve been preparing for a backpacking trip up to Cape Scott on Monday. So this post will be as much about Port Alberni and the South Island as it will about the North Island so my family can imagine when my son and I are soaked with rain or basking on a beach in 19°C…
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Better idea at where to find Comet Neowise
I managed to see the Comet last night (both with naked eye and a small telescope). It was really exciting! It’s pretty dim and I don’t have the stuff to be able to take a picture but here’s where I saw it. The arrow shows both the position and the direction of the tail on…
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Time to look for a Comet!
Look for it over the Beauforts (Just left/west of the tallest peak) around 11PM each night. The weather continues to be variable and less than summery. Though early this week might feel a little better. So perhaps we can turn our attention to something a little more fleeting, but rewarding, a Comet that can be…
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Warm and Sunny Sunday before Spotty week.
Sunday will be the nicest of all of the days in the next week or so as we remain in a very unsettled pattern. We should stay dry today and get up to around 24°C in the sunshine this afternoon. Monday Afternoon Mountain Showers Showers blossom over the mountains on Monday afternoon particularly north of…