Category: Fire
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April 2016 Summary – Way above average temps. Stretch of Hot weather has fire danger picking up.
Well above average April in temperature. Much lower than normal precipitation. A dry, warm outlook. It is going to be a hot dry weekend and that is just a continuation of what we saw in April. We set a whole raft of new short term temperature records (seven) at the Airport but did not quite manage to set…
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Heat returning for weekend. Weather data of Devastating Ft Mac Fire
First: Please donate to the Red Cross to help the thousands of refugees that are now in need. It really is like a war zone. For our area, a brief bit of rain yesterday actually delivered slightly more than UWash forecasted, but still just 3mm over the past 24 hours. We will now shift back to a dry…
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A rainy week, and an important request before the summer heat.
Welcome to Spring! And for those of you in SD70, Spring Break! Unfortunately, we have a slightly rainy week ahead of us but totals are modest. Between the mornings 5-5AM Monday/Tuesday, Tues/Wed, and Wed/Thurs the model shows 16mm, 4mm, and 16mm respectively. We should get a bit of a break Friday and then more showers Saturday. Please click to…
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UPDATE 9AM: Air Quality Advisory Issued – A week of clear and sunny skies brought to you in part by El Nino and Climate Change
UPDATED 9AM Air Quality Advisory Issued for next 3 days. AIR QUALITY ADVISORY AND OPEN BURNING RESTRICTIONS IN EFFECT FOR THE ALBERNI VALLEY, WITHIN 15 KM OF PORT ALBERNI CITY HALL (November 26, 2015 – Port Alberni, B.C.) The Ministry of Environment in collaboration with Island Health has issued an Air Quality Advisory for Port…
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Stagnant air, Woodstove and Slash Burning Combining for poor Air Quality
No official Advisories have been issued, but given the current weather pattern with no wind and cool temperatures, and with slash burning now beginning around the Valley, the Air Quality particulate measures in the City are quickly rising. Here is the current air quality data as at 10AM… just hitting the threshold (25ug/m3) for an advisory…