Month: August 2013

  • Blue moons, sunny Wed/Thurs, showers Friday?

    Did everyone catch the full ‘blue’ moon last night? It was a beauty! You can see it rising in yesterdays timelapse. A blue moon is the 3rd full moon in a 4 full moon season. (One season usually has 3 full moons, one for each month). This morning was pretty beautiful as well. Today should…

  • Pretty good week ahead!

    This mornings fog and clouds and chance for rain should burn off by noon. There will be a bit of fog every morning this week but we should get warmer and warmer as we go along. This is going to be a transition week. The jet stream is predicted to go from this strong, pattern…

  • Clouds all weekend, rain today, showers on and off.

    It’s not going to be terribly nice this weekend. Friday will be quite wet, especially if you are headed to points north on the Island. Here is this morning. Saturday should be a little drier. The real chance for rain, at least by the forecast right now, is going to be in Vancouver. Sunday looks…

  • Variable Day, Variable week

    We have definitely had a change in our weather! But hey, we did at least manage to be clear enough last night to see the Perseids. Here is one I caught on camera on the 9th! (Top left) Even though the peak has passed you should be able to see meteors streaking through the sky…

  • Forecast Change! But will we get rain? And then it ends!

    Update 2PM: Well, we got the rain! Judging by the front moving through on the radar, it should keep going until about between 2:30 and 3PM. Then we should dry out. Hope the racers and spectators got under cover! Well the forecast (from all sources) made a big shift to rain today. Victoria and Vancouver…