Category: Wet
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Barely any rain today/tonight
There will be a chance of showers starting around 4PM today. But don’t expect any major downpours. As you can see from the image below, we are only slated to get 0.04in, barely 1mm, of rain. So really the dry spell continues. This dry spell isn’t unheard of though. The last time we had one…
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Foggy, dry and cool until Wednesday
Monday and Tuesday this week should look pretty much the same. We will start foggy and hopefully clear up in the early afternoon. The next rain making system is set to arrive early Wednesday morning, then we have what look to be 3 or 4 systems in a row delivering rain between now and the…
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Freezing temps to end Friday – Headlines – and Comets
This should be our last super cold morning. Beautiful isn’t it? (Click for full size) Officially at the Airport we got down to -7.8° C on Wednesday morning and so far we are down to -6.9° C this morning. In town here at Alberniweaher we hit a slightly milder -5.3° C yesterday and -4.8° C…
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Mostly dry but cold week
The South Island is going to get some rain this morning but we should be spared. The fun for the week starts Tuesday when we have dropping temperatures forecast during the day. By 4PM Tuesday the majority of the Island is at or below zero. We generally start to fog over if we are not…
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Climate Change in Port Alberni – Snow? What Snow?
Over the past few weeks I’ve been extending some work I did a few months back pouring through the historical weather and climate records in the Alberni Valley. Since, according to the latest IPCC report1 warming of the climate is now deemed ‘unequivocal’ and the change ‘unprecedented’ since the 1950s, and further, that ‘human influence…