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Rain continues Thursday – Easing off by the weekend – Australian fires claim more lives.
UPDATE: Highway 4 to Tofino CLOSED Wet Weather Continues It has been a very wet week. In fact, there hasn’t been more than a 24 hour gap in the rain (or melting snow) since January 16! Including some snow melt, my rain gauge has measured 216mm since then, and counting. It’ll probably be past 300mm…
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2019 Annual Summary – Cooled off from extreme years past, but rain was lacking.
The Alberniweather and Alberni Valley Climate Summary for 2019 Average temperatures thankfully 2019 was an interesting year in that it was warmer than normal, but it wasn’t nearly as extreme, so it “felt” quite average, particularly in the summer. This was a departure from recent years. In its 25 years of operation at the Airport,…
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December 2019 Summary – Warm, Dry and Snowless.
The Alberniweather and Alberni Valley Climate Summary for December 2019 In the November summary I said that if the year had ended November 30, it would be one of the driest years ever but we had one month to go. Well, the end of December has come, and unfortunately it was another below average month…
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Fire crisis deepens in Australia as all communications to be cut in huge area south of Sydney.
The Bushfires raging across Australia are just too much not to mention on this blog. This page from the Australia Broadcasting Corporation has good live updates including this shocking one just released in the past few minutes. This is absolutely all communications, including to hospitals. The area is about 300km long along the east coast…
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November 2019 Summary – Much Warmer and Drier than normal.
The Alberniweather and Alberni Valley Climate Summary for November 2019 If this was the end of December, we would have had one of the driest years on record. Thankfully, we still have one month to go and we have rain in the forecast! That said, we didn’t quite receive 1/3rd of our normal rainfall for…