Category: Wind
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Rain tonight. Serious rain, and wind, Friday/Saturday
We haven’t had a good rainstorm since November… And really even since the end of September. When we’ve managed to get any precipitation at all, it has been in the form of relatively weak fronts moving over the Island. We will get another one of those weak fronts tonight. The rain should start in the…
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Jet stream giveth and taketh away
It’s the height of the cold snap back East. I saw wind chills of -60F reported in the Midwest. New York City has set a new record low of -5F (-20C) for this day. It’s cold and here’s why. The news has clung on to the words “Polar Vortex”. I think it’s kind of a…
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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…
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Fire, Rain, Spooks and Storms
Lots to talk about this morning! First, hopefully you got outside yesterday to enjoy the warmest weather in Canada. OK, not officially, but it was 21C on my station and the official hotspot in Canada was North Cowichan at 20C. You likely saw the fire on the other side of the Beauforts. I first noticed…
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Summer ends with a bang. Wet final days.
This picture comes courtesy of Heather Mollet. We got yesterday one of the strongest thunderstorms I remember here and I’ve heard a few others say the same anecdotally. Certainly compared to the storms I got to experience in Mexico in July, this one seemed to be a pretty good effort! There were more than a…