Year: 2011

  • Fascinating, Unprecedented, Frightening flooding in North America

    The great plains of North America are currently experiencing the greatest flooding in 150 to 300 years. CBC and CNN are both carrying footage live. Today the Province of Manitoba intentionally breached a dyke on the Assiniboine River, flooding hundreds of houses and thousands of square km of land to protect against an uncontrolled breach…

  • Will we hit 20?

    If you have some water barrels to fill for the summer, today and tomorrow will be the days to fill them. The temperatures are going to remain pretty static between about 6 and 10 for lows and highs. Well below average highs for this time of year. The good news comes on the weekend though,…

  • Rain? What rain, i don’t see no stinkin’ rain

    Throw that forecast out the window and break out the sunscreen! It’s going to be partly cloudy today! 😀 Tuesday will be the next round of possible wet weather.

  • Rain with a good chance of Burgers

    Unfortunately our streak of sunny weekends is coming to an end. We’re going to get around 20mm of rain starting mid-Friday afternoon and extending into Saturday morning. It should be over by Saturday evening, but if you’re planning on a BBQ for the Canucks final game against Nashville, make sure you have your rain jacket…

  • Go Vote!

    The rain should end by noon today. Vote! It will be an exciting night.