Category: General
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Climate Change in Port Alberni – Snow? What Snow?
Over the past few weeks I’ve been extending some work I did a few months back pouring through the historical weather and climate records in the Alberni Valley. Since, according to the latest IPCC report1 warming of the climate is now deemed ‘unequivocal’ and the change ‘unprecedented’ since the 1950s, and further, that ‘human influence…
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Rain starts tonight, ends Sunday morning, back Tuesday. And Yolanda/Haiyan
Today should be fairly pleasant. No rain is expected until tonight when a weak finger of moisture is slated to touch us and bring some rain. It leaves by Sunday morning. And then we get a nice break for Remembrance Day before the rain returns late Monday night. A pretty normal pattern for November. Elsewhere…
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Contest! First Day of Snow 2013!
The Question: When will we get measurable snow at Alberniweather? Enter your guesses in the comments of this post only! Entries are open until 6AM Wednesday November 13th. Prize is to be determined, but it will be a great one! :). If you are a business that would like to donate a prize, please email…
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Halloween forecast: try to stay dry
The roads are wet and the bushes are all dripping but we haven’t even recorded 1mm of rain in the past 24hrs. This kind of dampness will continue through the Halloween trick or treating time from 5-8PM. As you can see above, there are showers lingering in that time period. So my suggestion would be…
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Fire, Rain, Spooks and Storms
Lots to talk about this morning! First, hopefully you got outside yesterday to enjoy the warmest weather in Canada. OK, not officially, but it was 21C on my station and the official hotspot in Canada was North Cowichan at 20C. You likely saw the fire on the other side of the Beauforts. I first noticed…