Tag: drought
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2019 Annual Summary – Cooled off from extreme years past, but rain was lacking.
The Alberniweather and Alberni Valley Climate Summary for 2019 Average temperatures thankfully 2019 was an interesting year in that it was warmer than normal, but it wasn’t nearly as extreme, so it “felt” quite average, particularly in the summer. This was a departure from recent years. In its 25 years of operation at the Airport,…
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What we just saw might be what we see for months. Heavy rain, with dry stretches, thanks to the Blob.
Dry Wednesday through Friday We will get a break from today through Friday so lets look a little longer…. We have had a pretty soggy past few days punctuated by some very heavy periods of rain. In total if you head to the full almanac data pages you’ll see we received about 57mm of rain…
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Rain on cue ending soon. Welcome news for Koksilah river fish.
The model predicted last night that a band of showers would move through Port Alberni in the 6-7AM hour and indeed it has been raining since about 4:30AM. The rain should end before 10AM this morning in Port Alberni and a little later the further south you go on the Island. We should see the…
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Partly Cloudy and slight chance of rain. Fire Danger moderate but forests very dry.
Rain sticking to North End Don’t expect much in the way of precipitation for the next few days if you are south of Campbell River. While there are chances for rain on many days in the next seven, none are very significant. Here are the three day total rainfall forecasts, first, from 5PM Wednesday (yesterday)…
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Update: Lightning sparks three fires. Some more rain coming?
Update 2 – Great Lightning video! Brad Jason posted a great video of yesterday’s storm down the Alberni Inlet and got a great shot of the lightning striking right in the middle of the Alberni Inlet! Click the picture to go to the Facebook video. Update – Lightning causes three fires. There are now three…