Category: Climate Change

  • March 31 record set

    I just ran through the records for March 31st, and it looks like our warmest since at least 1930 and a new official record. The highest temps for an official Port Alberni station were: 22.2C in 1930 at the original Port Alberni city hall station; 18.9C at the ‘A’ station on the river in 1992;…

  • Spring is here – Will Arctic ice remain for my daughter?

    It’s really difficult to pin down a forecast these days. I guess that’s just the way spring is. But I do notice the high temperatures are creeping ever higher. It may not actually happen, but the high for Friday is forecast to get to 16C! I’d be ok with that. 🙂 We should stay relatively…

  • It’s an Earth Hour experiment!

    There will be no updates as I shutdown my server for Earth Hour. We’re going to see how low our power consumption can go in the house. Pictures to come… happy lights out!

  • More Rain this week – Arctic Tipping Point

    We had quite a nice weekend that has even stretched into Monday morning. (And oh what an early monday morning it was with the time change) On and Off This week is going to be a pretty wet one. There are already rainfall warnings up for the West Coast and for Greater Vancouver. I don’t…

  • More Rain – Winter totals – Climate Change?

    Welcome to the first day of (Meteorological) Spring! The rain should taper off this until around noon and then will pick up steam again and really get going around 2 or 3PM when the Pineapple Express firehose points squarely at us. It should taper off overnight before delivering its final, somewhat weak blow on Saturday…