Category: General

  • Slave to the Jetstream. Wet Seven Days coming.

    I hate to say it, but the variable, but generally pleasant, weather of the past week is going to degenerate into what looks like an onslaught of pacific storms over the next 7 days. As I mentioned on Monday, the Jetstream is sending a strong atmospheric river our way. And when that happens, generally we…

  • Mixed cloudy week – the Centennial Pier – and Weekly Timelapses

    We will get a bit of everything this week. The afternoon temperatures will stay reasonably warm just below or above 20C. It might feel a bit muggy in the afternoons and who knows, we might even get a thunderstorm out of it all. I am seeing a strong jet stream coming across the Pacific for…

  • Not such a bad week afterall. Sunny Weekend coming.

    Well, even though we have received a bit of rain, (8.13mm since Monday), it really hasn’t been all that bad. Yesterday we had a chance of some thunder showers, and there were downpours in spots, but nothing more threatening that other than some nice billowy clouds to the Southeast. Today will be sort of the…

  • Showers Friday? Possible but unlikely.

    Just looking over the forecast images and noting that even though it will cloud over, the chance of us getting rain or even a sprinkle, I think are pretty slim and even if it does, it is most likely to be around 3AM.. Good for the gardens. Other than that. Looks like a great weekend…

  • May 2013 recap: Warm and Wet – Warm and dry summer predicted

    It was a warmer and wetter than normal May. The average temperature in May was 13.2C and we received 85mm of rain. This is 2.0C above normal for temperature and 10mm above normal for rainfall compared to the 1970-2000 normal daily averages for May at Environment Canada . I am going to omit my station…