Category: General

  • 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…

  • Spectacular week ahead – and dual vision!

    The week ahead doesn’t need much explanation. For the most part, it will be clear, sunny and warm in the day with maybe a little fog developing in the morning. It won’t be perfectly sunny though. There look to be what should be a few weak systems come through on Wednesday, late Thursday and Saturday.…

  • New Server Means New Things Coming!

    For the first time in 5 years, the wview server that connects to my weather station is running on a different machine! I’ve migrated it to a new 8 core Mac Mini with lots of RAM and bigger hard drive. It’s not going to mean much difference for the weather data, though the database is…

  • A little more rain Saturday, then spectacular.

    There is going to be a good chance of rain today as a front pushes through this morning. Here’s the 9AM forecast, you can see the front off the coast. It won’t be really strong rain like we’ve had, but still enough to need an umbrella. On Friday, the last day of May, we can…

  • Will June be better?

    Expect more showers today and through the week as we work our way through the end of May. It should taper off a bit as of around now… But this afternoon will be particularly wet again. So make sure you bring the umbrella again today when you pick up the kids from school: There will…