Category: Climate Change
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Summary October 2015 – Much Warmer than Normal- Significant Data Holes – Climate Change Fingerprints on Blob
After an anomalously normal September, October got back into the swing of things with very warm temperatures including multiple new short-term records set at the Airpot over the month. Unfortunately, the Airport station is again showing disturbing unreliability for both its rain measurements and has even missed some days completely. The stations that did report the…
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Dry start, wet end to week including Halloween.
There are some unexpected light misting showers falling in Nanaimo as I type this. Things should dry up completely on the Island by the end of the morning and remain dry through Tuesday. We have some signficant rain showers coming on Wednesday. They will start before 5AM. The rain will continue all day with total accumulations…
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Dry Saturday, Showers Sunday. “Historic”, “Explosive”, “Catastrophic” Hurricane Patricia to hit near Puerto Vallarta
We have quite a nice weekend shaping up for us. After the fog burns off in the morning we should get mostly cloudy skies today and then maybe some sunnier skies on Saturday. There will be a weak front coming through on Sunday morning that might bring some showers before noon but it will be…
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Pictures of the Moon – Pleasant end to September – Super High Tide Tuesday/Wednesday a preview of sea level rise.
Did you see the Lunar Eclipse? Even thiugh we only got to see half of the show, the moon did rise just in time over the left limb of Mt. Arrowsmith right before totality which was at 7:47PM.. https://twitter.com/alberniweather/status/648328006633582596 It made for a pretty special entrnace even if it blended in so well in brightness with the…
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August 2015 Summary and Outlook – Fire – Heat – Rain – Wind
So after a bit of delay due to the insanity of the start of the school year, here is the August 2015 Summary and Outlook for the next few months. August again was defined by fire, and I have compiled some interesting statistics on that front. Even though it still felt pretty hot and dry (we…