Category: Climate Change
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Climate Change in Port Alberni – Snow? What Snow?
Over the past few weeks I’ve been extending some work I did a few months back pouring through the historical weather and climate records in the Alberni Valley. Since, according to the latest IPCC report1 warming of the climate is now deemed ‘unequivocal’ and the change ‘unprecedented’ since the 1950s, and further, that ‘human influence…
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Extremely Dry October 2013 Recap
It’s time for the October 2013 recap, dry as a skeleton’s bones edition. Monthly Timelapse: This October has been extremely dry. Only a handful of Octobers since records began in the Alberni Valley in 1894 have been drier than this one. Our normal amount of rain is around 200 mm. We received a paltry 25.6mm…
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September 2013 Recap – What a Difference a Year makes.
It’s time for the September 2013 recap, soggy lawn edition! Here is the Timelapse! This September started off not bad but the last half really soaked us. We had nice weather to start. We only got 1.6mm of rain through the first 14 days of September. Then things changed. We had a few rain storms…
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Summer is back. Plus Climate Change fingerprints.
It is going to feel like full on summer on our final full week before the Equinox and start of Fall (which is at 1:44PM on the 22nd). It is a tale of the jetstream once again. Our great arbiter of all things weather on our coast will be bent way to the North of…
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Wet week starts tonight – And the clearing North Hole
We got pretty lucky on the weekend. After a few showers on Friday and Saturday (but less than anticipated) it cleared right up on Sunday and we were treated to another beautiful summer day! Today has already started out pretty well and we should have more sun than clouds for the majority of the morning.…