Category: General
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Updated: Campfires Banned starting Thursday. Final day above 30 – don’t expect much rain Friday night
UPDATE 7PM: The fire rating has officially moved to Extreme for the Valley. The entire Island is now at least Moderate. You can see the difference between yesterday and today’s fire rating picture below. This is today’s. This is yesterday’s Update 12PM The Coastal Fire Centre has issued a campfire ban that will start tomorrow,…
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June 2014 Summary – Set up for a dry summer – Heat Now and warm August?
Not a bad June but it was dry… and the warmest since 2009? Temperatures normal to above normal. Rainfall well below. For the month of June we were above normal in the City but only slightly above or exactly normal at the Airport. (Note: previous version had incorrectly transcribed data) Rainfall was well below normal. 28% of our normal at the Airport. Looking…
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Records will fall. Heat continues to Thursday
Environment Canada just updated their special weather statement.. It is below. We set a record at the Airport for the day yesterday and we will likely set one today as well as Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. These are not long term record though. I will hopefully get a chance to go through the long term…
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Updated: I’m back and the Hot Hot Heat is Here expect Extreme Fire danger next week
Update: the fire danger forecast has been downgraded to not get to extreme by Sunday the 13th but it may change again before we get there and I would be surprised if we did not reach extreme fire danger by Monday or Tuesday at the latest. (apologies for the Wednesday error 🙂 thanks to George…
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Port Alberni? There’s an App for that! And… Signing off for a couple weeks.
I’m headed to Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario for a family reunion, my Grandma Neufeld’s 90th birthday, a brother-in-law’s wedding, and general fun times with kids and family. So while I’m away I won’t be able to post much, if at all. You’re on your own until I return July 11th! I’m thinking though that after this week,…