Month: March 2012

  • Offline for Earth Hour

    Happy Earth Hour everyone! In honour of the hour, updates will be delayed until 9:30. What are you doing for Earth Hour?

  • A Question: Is this cool spring normal?

    I got a question from a friend that I thought would be a good blog post…. thanks Anna! Question: The weather is getting a bit depressing… is there any sense that the rain will, eventually, let up a bit? Is this normal? I know it *seems* like a really (REALLY) cool, wet spring . .…

  • Continuing chance of showers…

    We got through the rain and wind last night ok. Nothing serious came out of it here or elsewhere on the Island. I see the sun breaking out now and we can expect some breaks over the next few days interspersed amongst returns of the rain. This pattern will keep on keeping on for at…

  • Rain rain…

    The forecast has moderated somewhat, which is good. As you can see, it will be wet for the remainder of the week with the strongest shot now coming on Thursday. You can also see in the bottom red/blue graph that the temperatures will be very steady. Very little chance of snow while the rains are…

  • Progressively stormer week ahead

    As I type this it’s starting to drizzle in Nanaimo… The same is coming to Port Alberni soon if it hasn’t already and the week ahead will have more and more wet stuff as we go. It looks like we may have finally seen the last of the snow. This week is looking wet only.…