Category: General
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High Pressure holds – Air Quality not great – Hot Hot La Nina
Update 9:44AM: Air Advisory Lifted but risk remains. “AIR QUALITY ADVISORY ENDED BUT OPEN BURNING RESTRICTIONS CONTINUE FOR ALBERNI VALLEY, WITHIN 15 KM OF PORT ALBERNI CITY HALL” http://www.bcairquality.ca The Air Quality Advisory has been lifted, meaning that air quality has improved somewhat locally, but the Province’s and City’s burning restriction remain in force due…
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Air Quality Advisory Issued for Alberni Valley
Update: The Advisory Continues Today Tuesday January 15. Here is a snapshot of the readings from the station on top of Alberni Elementary. It remains very near the threshold for an advisory. Details are below. Check here for current levels and for updated advisories here: http://www.bcairquality.ca I will update this post if things change. MEDIA…
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Look ma, no wires! Wind readings are back. A quiet spell.
So first I have to say thank you. Thank you to those people (you know who you are!) who made it possible for me to order a wireless transmitting station for the anemometer. So the wind and related readings you see on the site now will now be from my station again. Graphs for those…
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Slept through a Tsunami warning – rainy weekend -cold weather coming
I woke up this morning and my email inbox and twitter feed are absolutely stuffed full of auto-alerts about a 7.5 Earthquake that happened near the border of Alaska and BC under the ocean around 1AM. Had I been awake I would have probably remarked on the difference in response and information between this earthquake…
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Possible flurries tonight
There is a weak system on its way for tonight that might give us some flurries once the sun goes down. The map below shows the first very light wave should hit around 5PM, the second stronger wave should hit between 7 and 9 PM. Neither will be hugely significant though. No more than around…