Category: Hot
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UPDATING – Incredible Yellow Morning – Fire Grown – Cool will help – Air Quality OK
The new Bring back the Mars petition is going to hit 10,000 by the end of the day. Incredible. You can sign it here. Final July 5 Update 10:55PM While we all worry about these fires, as we should. Let us not forget the one thing that made this so much more likely. Us. #climatechange…
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Ministry Declares Level 4 Drought on VI – East and South VI River fishing Banned – Water Conservation Urged
Update 12:45PM: Due to the high or extreme fire dangers across the province, the BC Wildfire Management Branch has now imposed a campfire, open burning, and firework ban for the entire province. The only exception is the ‘fog zone’ on the West coast of VI and all of Haida Gwaii. _______________________ The following is the press…
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June 2015 Summary – Incredible Consistent Highs – Airport Station Creates 11 Records
May was just 4º C above normal for highs… thought that was a lot? Well, June highs beat it at 4.8ºC at the Airport. Speaking of the Airport, it set 11 new records for high and low temperatures, including one all-time high, and one high rainfall even though we only received 22% of our normal precipitation.…
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Records fall. Heat breaks a little early week, then back.
No doubt about it, Saturday and Sunday were the hottest of the year. And yes we even beat a couple short term records. I’ll dig into the long term records on July 2 when I write up the monthly summary,! The list of records broken across the province on Saturday was impressive, some went as far…
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Updated 7:30AM Sat: Extreme Heat – Campfire Bans – Possible Dry Lightning
UPDATE 7:30AM Saturday The models are backing off a bit this morning. EC has dropped the high one degree from 36 to 35. Maybe it won’t be quite so unbearable. Here is one of te high resolution short term models.There is also a chance for dry lightning later in the day. Stay cool out there…