Year: 2012

  • Rainy weekend over – Station nearing California destination

    The last 48 hours have certainly felt the wettest since fall began. Alberni Elementary got over 60mm of rain between Friday and Monday morning. The Environment Canada station at the Airport got 93mm. Not too shabby! Of course, my station stayed perfectly dry because it is in a box in some delivery depot in Oakland…

  • More rain coming – Nice Timelapse yesterday

    The webcam got a nice series of shots yesterday afternoon when the skies cleared and the sun poked out. Check it out below or on the Webcams page, or on the Youtube channel: More rain coming today, tomorrow, the next day, the day after that, the day after that and the day after that too.…

  • Rain starts tonight.

    There may be a few showers today, but the real rain won’t start until later tonight. As the Marine Synopsis states: By 3:00 a.m. PST Saturday cold front located on a line north-south over central Vancouver Island. Here is the front as it sits over us tomorrow morning: The rain and gusty winds won’t let…

  • Rain to begin Friday afternoon

    Today will still be a relatively nice day with a good chance of seeing the sun most of the day. The models say the beginnings of our weekend storm will come on Friday afternoon around 4PM. From that point on we should have steady rain or rain showers until at least Sunday morning. The strongest…

  • Calm before the Weekend Storm

    Murphy has reared his ironic head and ensured that what looks like the strongest storm of the winter so far will appear when my weather station is offline. Oh well, we can still admire it coming, revel in its effects, and watch other sources for the details (he says through gritted teeth :)) The next…