Year: 2012
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Missed our record yesterday… Whales didn’t care
So we didn’t get up to the 30C we were supposed to reach yesterday. Personally I think it was due to the smoke and haze from Eastern Washington fires… But I don’t have any confirmation of that. Today and through the weekend though we have quite a bit more marine air so it’s going to…
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Another record bites the dust… another possible today/tomorrow
We beat another record on Tuesday. The Airport hit 30.6C which beat the record for the day set in 1999 but wasn’t quite good enough to land us the Top Hot Spot in Canada. We will have to get just a little higher… to 30.7C to beat todays record also set in 1999. Tomorrow, Thursday,…
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Hotspot in Canada! Ooohh Ya.
Port Alberni was the hotspot in Canada yesterday. And there were, in fact, many records broken yesterday. Below is the screenshot from Environment Canada’s media page. We might be the hotspot again today and will also likely break our record of 28.9C for this day set in 1999. Tomorrow if we stick to the 30C…
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The Arctic continues to thin….
FYI: Weather updates are back. Webcam updates remain offline. A quick update on what is happening in the Arctic. The records for extent and area of ice surface have been smashed. The 2007 record of 4.1 million square kilometres of ice coverage was broken on August 26.(NSIDC) We are currently below around 3.5 million square…
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Hot and Dry in September breaking records.
Our wonderful stretch of dry and warm weather this September still does not have an end in sight. There is a break predicted on the long range forecast for the end of the month. (Sept 29) but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that there is some doubt there since forecasts…