Month: July 2012
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WE HAVE A WINNER! — SUMMER HEAT CONTEST 2012 – When Will we hit 30C?
We finally have a winner for the 2012 Alberniweather Summer Heat Contest. Today at 15:26 (3:26PM) we finally crossed the 30C threshold and the station hit 30.17C and … ummm… “H992172” became our winner. Now if that person doesn’t turn out to be real (they have a real email address and made a coherent entry…
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Still haven’t hit 30C! Solar show tonight?
Amazingly we still haven’t hit 30C here on the Alberniweather station. We came closest yesterday (Friday) when we got up to 29.67C. Bill missed out on the prize by 0.38C of a degree. 🙂 No it looks like Crystal is going to have the best chance at it though we’re not forecast to go more…
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Hot Hot Hot Contests and some more Smoke info
It seems inevitable that someone is going to win the 30C Contest in the next couple days. The only question is who! No one actually guessed today’s date, so it looks like it will be a battle between Phil who guessed yesterday at 3:30PM and BillB who guessed tomorrow at 3:35PM so that means if…
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The smoke is Russian
Update: Sorry folks! I didn’t realize until just now that I didn’t actually link to Dr. Mass’s website! So here is his full analysis of where the smoke is coming from. Thanks to an excellent blog post by Cliff Mass we know where this smoke is coming from… Fires in the Russian far east and…
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Summer is here! 30C on Sunday?
It’s official! Summer is here and it’s beautiful! We are in for a good two weeks of solid sunshine. More than enough to warm up the lake! The hottest day in the span looks to be Sunday when we should hit 30C. That’s going to mean a winner in the Summer Heat Contest! Enough blogging,…