Category: Wind
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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…
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Special Weather statement: it’s gonna rain.
Environment Canada issued a special weather statement yesterday afternoon and evening. Here it is: Special weather statement continued for: East Vancouver Island, B.C. (081300) West Vancouver Island, B.C. (081400) Inland Vancouver Island, B.C. (081500) Current details: Significant rainfall after the long dry spell… The more intense front is still expected to sweep across the coast…
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Big rain Thursday. But good news long weekend!
We’ve had almost 11mm of rain in the past 24hrs and we are going to get a whole lot more before the end of the work week. But before you think that this month has been abnormally wet, that’s just your summer wishful thinking kicking in. So far we have received 37mm of rain in…