Year: 2009

  • More Cool Weather and Cool Features!

    Well, the cool weather looks set to continue for the forseeable future. These are more normal temperatures than what we got in the first couple weeks of June especially. But we’re still severely lacking in the rain department. We’ve had 2 periods of minimal Rain (May 25/26 and June 16) since our last good soaking…

  • Finally some cool and possible moisture!

    We’ll finally get some cooler (normal) temperatures in the coming days. Might also get some much needed rain to dampen down the fire hazard a bit. I’ve continued a little bit of work on the backend of the website for the past week. The “Search Weather Data” (bottom of the Almanac above) is now able…

  • All done! Less Tech –> More Heat!

    All done the upgrades. Apologies for the intermittent downtime but all is done and much happiness reigns. There will be very cool new features available now. Plus, my life is a little easier (OK, a lot!) because I no longer have to worry about converting from Universal Time to PDT and back, and forth, and…

  • Calm Weather and Upgrades

    Hey everyone. Looks like we should get back to relatively normal June temperatures this week (~20C). Should make it a little easier on the watering regime for the gardens. On Sunday you likely noticed a bit of downtime from the weather feed as I was applying a major upgrade to the wview software behind the…

  • Extreme Fire Danger, Extremely Early

    Very good article in the Paper today about the heat, and the fire danger. We have already had 4 days of Extreme Fire Danger… the most for June in at least the past 14 years. Please, just because it will be a little cooler, relatively, on Friday and the weekend, be very very careful out…