Category: Wet

  • Slept through a Tsunami warning – rainy weekend -cold weather coming

    I woke up this morning and my email inbox and twitter feed are absolutely stuffed full of auto-alerts about a 7.5 Earthquake that happened near the border of Alaska and BC under the ocean around 1AM. Had I been awake I would have probably remarked on the difference in response and information between this earthquake…

  • Christmas Snowfall Warning

    A very Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope all of you can bed down tonight in Port Alberni and wait for something that just does not happen very often. Here are the words from Environment Canada we’ve all be waiting for. 10 to 15 cm of snow expected on Christmas day. Please be careful. Please…

  • Updated! Merry Christmas Forecast?

    Update 11:30AM Dec 23 It is still a great forecast for Christmas as long as you are not travelling! I will try to update it again Christmas Eve. Oh and check out the webcams page. I’ve added a couple new ones. And Congratulations to Lynn who picked her daughter’s birthday for the Snow Contest and…

  • Christmas Weather in pictures

    This will be a pictorial post focusing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! Before then, expect alternating rain and snow showers today, tomorrow and Sunday. We will remain around the freezing mark so the best is to expect wet snow at any moment if you are driving or outside and be prepared. I will update…

  • New Station in the Slush.

    Here are some pics of the refurbished and newly (mostly) wireless weather station (at least between the main sensors and the console in the house). Its over there, on the post over the shed. Closer up… It’s about 6ft higher than the shed roof which should be ok to avoid excessive heating in summer. Good…