Category: General
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September 2017 Summary
September 2017 The Summary! Daily records set this month at the Airport* since 1995 and compared to other stations** for “All Time” since 1900. NINE new short term high temp records. No All Time records (though close!) and no short term rain records. September 2 high temp 33.9º C: #1 is 37.0º C in 1988 at Robertson Creek.**^^ September 3 high temp 35.0º C: #1 is 37.0º C in…
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Fingers Crossed! Possible Family Day snow day??
This week will be pretty standard fare, though not as grey as we have been subjected to for most of the last month. Wasn’t that sun yesterday nice?? We should get a little more today or tomorrow before more persistent showers creep back in for Wednesday. The interesting part of the forecast though is the…
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Update 7:30AM Saturday —- East Coast snow possible Saturday — Possible Flooding Storm Monday
Update 7:30AM Snowfall Warning issued for East side of the Island. EC just issued a snowfall warning from Comox down to Nanoose. Another 5cm is expected this morning. The drive BC cameras show plenty of snow on that side already. Here is the highway 4 junction at Coombs. Drive safely. I will have an update for…
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Drivers: Cold and Sleet early Friday… Snowy and Stormy in store for Saturday
Now… back to the weather…. We are into a pretty unstable and cool pattern. Temperatures aren’t expected to get above 4ºC from today until Sunday. Showers should start Thursday evening in the 7PM hour (in grey below) with snow at higher elevations (in green). It will be short lived though and spotty. Beware: There is…
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What happened, and what to learn, on the Jan 23 2018 Tsunami
Tsunami Siren Evacuation – What happened, for the record. Here’s a full rundown of what happened on Tuesday… a few things we learned… and a few things for next time. First, this is what the siren sounded like at 3:45AM after I had evacuated my family: https://twitter.com/alberniweather/status/955787063697145856