Category: Air Quality
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The Rain has Come!
Light, but it’s there. After 20 long, dry, and hot days in October, we are finally receiving our first rain shower of the month. This is the first time Alberniweather has had measurable rain since September 28 (1.3mm) and only the 6th time since July 15th. This station hasn’t measured more than 5 millimetres of…
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Our home is on fire
We have to reduce CO2 emissions I took these photos on the way to work this morning. The smoke is from fires in Washington State. Air Quality is poor across the Island including Port Alberni. I try to keep politics to a bare minimum here but it has to be said. We all just voted…
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Fire near Cox Lake south of Port Alberni
BC Wildfire on Scene after local fire departments action overnight Two fires started near Cox Lake and Franklin River Road just south of Port Alberni. The fires are spreading smoke across the City and Valley. It was human caused. The westward (left) one is about 0.3ha and under control, the eastern one is about 4ha…
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Muggy Monday, Warm and Dry week. Perfect to GoByBike! Also new AQ map.
Phew! May has been crazy but the weather marches on! It had a humid spring feeling to the air last night. Monday will start cloudy and we might see some brief showers but it will stay quite warm and prepare us for Tuesday which should feature full sun and hot temperatures up to 28°C. That…
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Power Outage Thursday – Rain Thursday night – Dry Weekend
Planned Power Outage will take weather station offline BC Hydro has a planned power outage for my area today between 9AM and 4PM so my weather station, including the air monitor, will not be sending updates to the website in that time. It should hopefully be back up before 4PM but we’ll see. Rain Thursday…