Category: General

  • We have a Summer Winner! Congrats Natalie

    Yesterday it heated up, fast. So at 12:30PM when the temperate passed 30C at alberniweather.ca, Natalie became the winner of the Alberniweather Summer Contest. Congratulations Natalie! Your prize is a fabulous pair of Super Soakers. There’s nothing like a good old fashioned water fight to beat the heat in the summertime. You can claim your…

  • New weather stations online in Port Alberni and West Coast

    Hey! Great news from the world of local weather information! The folks at UVic who run the “Schoolnet” islandweather.ca websites (and sub-sites, nanaimoweather.ca and victoriaweather.ca) have just brought four new stations online! There are now weather stations feeding into the network (along with this one of course) from Alberni Elementary School, Maquinna Elementary School, Wikkaninnish…

  • Hang in there! Summer is coming this weekend

    Today and tomorrow will be pretty damp, but don’t worry. It looks like we might finally get our first shot at real early-summer weather this weekend! There is an outside chance that someone could win the Contest this weekend. Laura and Libbie look to be on deck for Sundayl. But the really good news is…

  • Help Track the Smell – Repost

    This is a repost of an article I posted on May 5. Since there was a frontpage story in the AV Times today (June 3) on efforts to find the source, I thought I would repost this post and ask again that you keep sending in your reports so as to give Guy Cicon at…

  • Juneuary Hits: Lots of Rain on the way

    In case you lost track, yes, Tuesday is June 1. No, our weather has not been nice. Yes, our weather has been colder and more wet than normal (for May). And guess, what, Tuesday night and Wednesday will be even more wet. According to Bret Anderson at Accuweather this evening, and according to the map…