Category: Climate Change
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Ministry Declares Level 4 Drought on VI – East and South VI River fishing Banned – Water Conservation Urged
Update 12:45PM: Due to the high or extreme fire dangers across the province, the BC Wildfire Management Branch has now imposed a campfire, open burning, and firework ban for the entire province. The only exception is the ‘fog zone’ on the West coast of VI and all of Haida Gwaii. _______________________ The following is the press…
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June 2015 Summary – Incredible Consistent Highs – Airport Station Creates 11 Records
May was just 4º C above normal for highs… thought that was a lot? Well, June highs beat it at 4.8ºC at the Airport. Speaking of the Airport, it set 11 new records for high and low temperatures, including one all-time high, and one high rainfall even though we only received 22% of our normal precipitation.…
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UPDATE 1PM: Fire Danger rises to Extreme – Potentially “Catastrophic” dry weather – But There is A Way Forward
UPDATE 1PM Monday: The BC Wildfire Management Branch just increased our fire danger rating to Extreme. This isn’t a big surprise even though it wasn’t in their forecast. Their forecast (for “Beaver Creek” station) also says it might go back down to 4/High on Wednesday, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it stayed right where…
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Heat breaks but no rain. Drought Conditions. Unidentified Smoke lingers in Valley.
We had a definite change in airmass yesterday as winds blew in some high level clouds and cooler air that will moderate our temperatures nearer to normal for this time of year. (21º C) We still managed to hit 29.1º C at the Airport on Wednesday! Way above normal for June. EC says we should stay in…
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May 2015 Summary – 4º Warmer than Normal – Warm and Dry Outlook
After what was a strangely normal April… we went back to a regime of consistent above average temperatures in May. High temperatures were more than 4ºC above normal for our highs and 3ºC above normal for our lows. Despite the well above normal temperatures we only managed to set 4 new record high temperatures…