Category: General
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Starry morning sky
A quick update for star gazers since the skies are relatively clear this morning, if you look to the East towards Mt. Arrowsmith you should see some bright stars. On top is Saturn, a little bit below and to the left is Venus (which may be hidden behind the mountain) and if we could actually…
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Rainy weekend over – Station nearing California destination
The last 48 hours have certainly felt the wettest since fall began. Alberni Elementary got over 60mm of rain between Friday and Monday morning. The Environment Canada station at the Airport got 93mm. Not too shabby! Of course, my station stayed perfectly dry because it is in a box in some delivery depot in Oakland…
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Calm before the Weekend Storm
Murphy has reared his ironic head and ensured that what looks like the strongest storm of the winter so far will appear when my weather station is offline. Oh well, we can still admire it coming, revel in its effects, and watch other sources for the details (he says through gritted teeth :)) The next…
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Weather Station Makes Its Journey
I dropped the Weather Station off at Purolator this morning. I am hopeful that it will be back at Davis Instruments in California by Friday. Monday should be the latest it would arrive. Below is the Purolator Tracker, I’ll update this image as I see updates from Purolator: Since we seem to be into picking…
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Contest Begins – Weather Station offline 10 days or more.
As I noted last week, my station is in need of repair. So later today I will be dismantling it and removing it from my roof so I can send it back to California to get repaired and upgraded. This means the current weather values will be offline until it comes back. I would anticipate…