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Beautiful week ahead
It is cold out there! It is -3.4°C right now at Alberniweather and still dropping this hour and it is 6.2°C as of 6AM at the Airport! Brrrr! Thankfully, the wind has died down! That is going to set a record at the Airport for this day. The next coldest March 16 at that station…
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Happy Meteorological Spring! Lots going on, inc. possible Port Alberni snow/rain mix Thursday
Meteorological spring starts March 1, so here we are! And it’s not long before the astronomical spring too! The vernal equinox is early this year, March 19 at 8:49 pm PDT. The showers should already be done this morning but some areas, particularly on the East side of the Island and Vancouver especially could see…
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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…