• More Rain – Warm Temps – and Comet Sighting?

    We had quite a blustery afternoon and night last night. The wind hasn’t dipped below 8kph since around 3PM yesterday. It looks like it’s dying off now. The rain will return later today. Now that it is Spring and dry weather isn’t too far away, I shut the valves on our water barrels on the…

  • More Rain this week – Arctic Tipping Point

    We had quite a nice weekend that has even stretched into Monday morning. (And oh what an early monday morning it was with the time change) On and Off This week is going to be a pretty wet one. There are already rainfall warnings up for the West Coast and for Greater Vancouver. I don’t…

  • ALERT: See Comet Pannstars tonight!

    Get out your Binoculars and Telescopes! The Sky is clear and there might be a comet sighting! If you haven’t already heard, there is a very rare (possibly only time ever) comet passing nearby and we are going to be able to see it as soon as tonight. I say might because the comet is…

  • Sun coming tomorrow – Drizzly day today – Spring Forecast

    Not a whole ton going on so the updates are pretty short these days. It’s a pretty drizzly day. Not as much in the Alberni Valley which is nice… but other parts of the Island are seeing some darker skies with soaking west coast drizzle so make sure you have your rain jacket on and…

  • Quick rain showers… then getting into fair weather.

    A weak system will come through today and this evening. bringing some rain showers. Nothing like we had last week. After that, things are looking quite dry and, if the fog stays away, very nice right through the weekend! Lets hope. 🙂