Category: Hot

  • Back from the Cape and into the Boiler! Heat this week.

    Back from the Cape and into the Boiler! Heat this week.

    It has already been hot for the past week but it is about to get hotter. If you check out the weekly data page on the Almanac you can see our progression over the past seven days. Here is the temperature for that period: You can see we got to 33.6°C last Monday and then…

  • Hottest days of the year coming – including on the North Island!

    Hottest days of the year coming – including on the North Island!

    I’ve been preparing for a backpacking trip up to Cape Scott on Monday. So this post will be as much about Port Alberni and the South Island as it will about the North Island so my family can imagine when my son and I are soaked with rain or basking on a beach in 19°C…

  • Chance of Thunder Saturday but otherwise warm sunny and getting hotter. Water Restrictions July 1

    Chance of Thunder Saturday but otherwise warm sunny and getting hotter. Water Restrictions July 1

    Friday and Saturday will see clouds, possible thunder It was a beautiful day to head to the lake on Thursday. We went over there and there were so many people we actually decided to skip it and go another day. Instead we hung out in the yard and made homemade pizza and watched the hummingbirds…

  • Happy Summer Solstice!

    Happy Summer Solstice!

    The official moment of earths closest approach to the sun is this afternoon at 2:44PM (PDT). We should have a very pleasant first days of summer today and tomorrow. There might be some lingering showers this morning and we could see scattered thundershowers this afternoon. Sunday will be cloudy with sunny breaks and warm and…

  • Big Changes in the Weather and the Website!

    Big Changes in the Weather and the Website!

    More rain tonight and into Wednesday There is better weather coming, but first, a little more rain! Expect showers to start overnight after midnight tonight as another system sweeps in. We should dry out on the Island by noon on Wednesday though and then the change begins! Sunny Thursday and through the Weekend From Thursday…