Category: Hot

  • New Station site in time for hot weather!

    So a few weeks ago I had a discussion with Ed Weibe down at UVic about where how my weather station was installed on my house. They weren’t happy. It was too close and while I felt it was not producing overly heated daytime temps, they disagreed. As they are the ones with the Dr.…

  • Warm week ahead: But first, the “Hanukkah Eve” cyclone.

    I hope everyones garden has gotten a good drink the past few days. Ours certainly has, and our rain barrels have been replenished as well. Looks like we’ll need them starting Monday as some heat is coming just in time for the Canada Day Parade. In other news I came across a great article today…

  • All done! Less Tech –> More Heat!

    All done the upgrades. Apologies for the intermittent downtime but all is done and much happiness reigns. There will be very cool new features available now. Plus, my life is a little easier (OK, a lot!) because I no longer have to worry about converting from Universal Time to PDT and back, and forth, and…

  • Extreme Fire Danger, Extremely Early

    Very good article in the Paper today about the heat, and the fire danger. We have already had 4 days of Extreme Fire Danger… the most for June in at least the past 14 years. Please, just because it will be a little cooler, relatively, on Friday and the weekend, be very very careful out…

  • We have a Winner! Richard!

    At 14:18 (2:18PM) yesterday the Alberniweather thermometer hit 30.0C. Congratulations go to Richard who guessed 14:45. Only 27 minutes difference. Not bad! Richard has won a beautiful prize. Mittens and a wool jacket! OK, no, not really. Richard has won a nice Woods folding camping chair, complete with drink holder! Richard please contact me at…