Category: Fire
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EC issues Special Weather Statement for Heat. Fire forecast for ‘active’ conditions.
Update: Campfire Ban in Effect including in City of Port Alberni as of Wednesday 17th Noon according to multiple sources. (I will post a link to a Forest Service news page once I find one.) Here is the statement from the Port Alberni Fire Department Facebook page. CAMPFIRES PROHIBITED WITHIN THE CITY OF PORT ALBERNI…
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Heat continues, and intensifies through week. Fire Danger increases.
While we haven’t broken any records and likely won’t in the next week, it is going to feel pretty consistently hot and might even hotter as a ridge of high pressure locks in and intensifies. We may break records on Thursday and Friday. You can see this process in the UWash jetstream forecast. Here are the…
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Update Sunday 11AM – Fire to 3ha – When Idiots Attack – Fire out Comox Main
Update Sunday 11AM Some pictures this morning from the Haack’s farm at the end of Beaver Creek road in Port Alberni. No update yet from BC Wildfire this morning. The weather is much cooler this morning which will help things. Update Sunday 9AM The fire report this morning has the fire at double yhe…
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Tuesday showers and possible thunder. Fire Risk holds at High.
It will be quite pleasant again today but a little bit of a change is going to come late in the evening and overnight as a chance of showers develops with a chance of a few rumbles of thunder as well. The rain is projected to arrive after sundown tonight. In the first image below you…
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Heat backs off but summer continues. Extreme Fire Danger
A great run of weather is going to continue into BC Day Long Weekend. By the end of today (Friday) we will have been over 30°C six days in a row. The highs were closer to the UWash model thankfully than the EC forecast earlier in the week so we didnt get up to 36°C as…