Category: General
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November 2016 Summary and Outlook – Rain and Warm
Remember November? Before the snow… it rained, forever! There are 30 days in November. It rained on 28 of them. This is right after it rained 29 out of the 31 days which appeared to be the most since 1963. So in total it has rained 57 of a possible 61 days when it rained in the…
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UPDATED 1PM Saturday —- Late Sunday Snow into Monday morning and evening
Update 1PM Saturday The morning high resolution models are finished and the forecast has refined a bit. Port Alberni will probably only get snow late Sunday night around midnight. After that, most of the chance focuses on the east side and will depend on the outflow winds picking up snow along the Strait and dumping…
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Mostly dry Monday! Rain Tuesday. And… cooling enough for…. sn..? 🙂
We should get a nice break today. It will be fairly warm as well. We shift back into rain on Monday night and Tuesday. Here is the 24hr total 4PM/4PM Monday/Tuesday. We are in the green, up to 30mm wih Sproat Lake and higher elevations getting into the 65mm or 130mm range. The rain will begin around…
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Why I must Protest – Kinder Morgan – Pacific Rim National Park Oil Spill – Climate Change
On Saturday morning my family and I will be making the trek to Vancouver to join in the protest against the Kinder Morgan pipeline. The last time I attended a major protest was in 2003 for the Iraq War…. before I even had a family… it has been a long time. (If you would like…
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Rainy Weekend but there are breaks.
The boffins at University of Washington have worked out the initial bugs and returned to the expanded high resolution forecasts. The message for the weekend? Grab an umbrella, or stoke up the (seasoned, dry) wood on the fire. It will be wet. Friday won’t be bad. Only a chance of a shower in the 2-3PM hour.…