Month: December 2012
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New Station in the Slush.
Here are some pics of the refurbished and newly (mostly) wireless weather station (at least between the main sensors and the console in the house). Its over there, on the post over the shed. Closer up… It’s about 6ft higher than the shed roof which should be ok to avoid excessive heating in summer. Good…
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Update: Getting worse on East side. Snow heavy some places, bust elsewhere.
Update: 9:04AM they finally issued a snowfall warning for the East Coast. I’ve just spent the past hour in Parksivlle and it has gotten very windy and the snow is really coming down now and its sticking. If you don’t have to come over here today. I would advise NOT. The Bus drivers are telling…
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UPDATED: Snow Wind Rain coming – Chances…
UPDATE 9:15 – The station is online. There is no wind value right now as I did not install the anemometer because it was icy on the roof. Hopefully I can do that tomorrow but I’m thinking the Weekend is more likely. It will take a few days for the Almanacs and Graphs to fill…
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Update: Surprise! We have a Winner. Major event possible tonight through Wednesday.
UPDATE 12PM – As expected the 11AM update brought a Snowfall Warning for the Alberni Valley and Inland Sections of Vancouver Island. The East Coast still ‘only’ has a Wind Warning. I am somewhat surprised they didn’t issue a Snowfall Warning for the East Coast as well but we’ll see what happens. Scattered precipitation will…
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East Coast gets dumped on, our turn Wednesday?
Bundle up on Monday the wind will be cold. If you were on Facebook or twitter last night you would have seen us chatting about the dumping that Nanaimo and other East Coast communities got. The low pressure that was supposed to go right over our heads instead slid south and brought easterly and northeasterly…