Category: Climate Change
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Heat backs off but summer continues. Extreme Fire Danger
A great run of weather is going to continue into BC Day Long Weekend. By the end of today (Friday) we will have been over 30°C six days in a row. The highs were closer to the UWash model thankfully than the EC forecast earlier in the week so we didnt get up to 36°C as…
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QUAKE Cottage! And Level 3 Drought declared. Forests dry.
The Quake Cottage is in Port Alberni! Check it out today! It will be at Echo Centre today from 10AM to 4PM! It’s fun, AND educational! I experienced it last Friday at VIU, check out the craziness: For a slightly (ok a lot) more entertaining look… check out Joan Rivers trying it out! OK, so it’s…
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Variable week – Thursday Thunder – The Arctic Breaks up Fast and Early
It will be mostly cloudy and dry this week but it should stay pleasantly warm. We should get some sunny breaks this afternoon and then back to cloud Wednesday. On Thursday things get a little more interesting as there appears to be a chance for some thunderstorms in the afternoon. The first indication is afternoon…
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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…
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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…