Category: Climate Change
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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…
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Wet Week Ahead – Winter Normals
After a great Saturday, we had quite the Sunday with constant rain and some of our strongest winds of the winter. We received 35.3mm of rain on Sunday and we’ve got 114.8mm so far for February which is about half the 234mm we normally get in February. In fact, while we are on the topic…
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Quiet week ahead – Arctic animations
Right now it looks like a quiet week, some rain today but after that it is likely to be mostly foggy with hopefully some sunny breaks. So I will instead… How about some pretty pictures, Here is a 30 day running image of Arctic sea ice thickness. It almost looks alive, Note the thickest ice…
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High Pressure holds – Air Quality not great – Hot Hot La Nina
Update 9:44AM: Air Advisory Lifted but risk remains. “AIR QUALITY ADVISORY ENDED BUT OPEN BURNING RESTRICTIONS CONTINUE FOR ALBERNI VALLEY, WITHIN 15 KM OF PORT ALBERNI CITY HALL” http://www.bcairquality.ca The Air Quality Advisory has been lifted, meaning that air quality has improved somewhat locally, but the Province’s and City’s burning restriction remain in force due…
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A little bit of everything
Major mixed bag coming this week. Showers today, rain tonight and tomorrow possible sunny breaks and chilly air on Wednesday then back to shower with possible flurries on Thursday… Rinse and repeat. The European model is showing a steady pattern with high pressure over the North Pacific and low pressure systems sliding down the East…