Year: 2009
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The Drought has Broken for now!
Check out that radar image, that’s a doozy of a rain front. EC says we’ll be getting at least 15mm of rain tonight, there was nearly a rainfall warning issued for the West Coast (Uke/Tofino), they’re expecting up to 50mm overnight. So to put it all into perspective, since September 1, we’ve received 16.5mm of…
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An unwelcome change
It must be Labour Day weekend! We’re getting rain. 😀 We’ve had rain for the past 3 Labour Day weekends. I feel bad for the fisher-folks trying to have a nice morning on the water, but hey, they say the fish like the rain. In the weather department, we should get a little wind on…
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More sun sun sun
I’m starting to wish Fall would come just so we could get some more interesting weather. If someone could order up a thunderstorm or something (without causing a forest fire!) that would be great! How is everyones garden doing? Ours has been very happy! We harvested a whole bunch of potatoes a few weeks back.…
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Some rain, then back to the sun
We’ll be getting this nice little rest today from the dryness. After today though, it’s back to the sunshine and warm temperatures. We should get up into the mid to upper 20s for the rest of the week with a slight chance of breaking 30. I don’t know how many of you followed Hurricane Bills…
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Near Record August 19? 5th Warmest July ever.
While yesterday, August 19, wasn’t an alltime record breaker, that goes to August 19, 1908 at 37.8C out Beaver Creek, we did come very close to a “modern” day (post 1950) record. The highest temperature recorded after 1950 by other stations around the Valley is 34.4 at McCoy Lake in 1961 and Robertson Creek at…