Month: October 2013
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Extremely Dry October 2013 Recap
It’s time for the October 2013 recap, dry as a skeleton’s bones edition. Monthly Timelapse: This October has been extremely dry. Only a handful of Octobers since records began in the Alberni Valley in 1894 have been drier than this one. Our normal amount of rain is around 200 mm. We received a paltry 25.6mm…
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Halloween forecast: try to stay dry
The roads are wet and the bushes are all dripping but we haven’t even recorded 1mm of rain in the past 24hrs. This kind of dampness will continue through the Halloween trick or treating time from 5-8PM. As you can see above, there are showers lingering in that time period. So my suggestion would be…
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Rain around noon. Drying for Halloween time.
Well the party is finally coming to an end. It’s going to rain today. It shouldn’t be too strong, but the rain should start after 11AM this morning and last through the evening and into Thursday morning. The big question of course is what will it be doing at Trick or Treat time tomorrow. Thankfully,…
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Air Quality Advisory Issued but Beautiful day!
Environment Canada just issued an Air Quality advisory for the Alberni Valley within a 15km radius from Port Alberni City Hall. Not sure if this is due to wood fire smoke, but there it is. The full advisory is included at the bottom of this post or monitor http://www.bcairquality.ca. In the meantime, it was a…
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Fire, Rain, Spooks and Storms
Lots to talk about this morning! First, hopefully you got outside yesterday to enjoy the warmest weather in Canada. OK, not officially, but it was 21C on my station and the official hotspot in Canada was North Cowichan at 20C. You likely saw the fire on the other side of the Beauforts. I first noticed…