Month: April 2014
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An off again on again week – Happy Earth Day!
After a pretty soggy long weekend, it was a gorgeous sunset last night. That has led to a beautiful morning this morning. We are only supposed to get 4mm between this morning and Wednesday morning and 8mm between Wednesday and Thursday morning. So in all. Not too bad. It looks a little wetter through the…
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Rain through Thursday – Easter Egg Hunt Forecast
Spring showers are back and that’s not a bad thing. I’ve turned off the spigots on my water barrels so that instead of acting as flood and runoff mitigators (which they do very well) they will now actually collect water in preparation for the dry season. I think it takes about 50mm of rain to…
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Patience rewarded! Blood Moon captured on webcam, Timelapse Included
Updated: Timelapse now included! (Make sure you set it to HD quality, makes a huge difference… use the little gear icon to change it) It was a tough road last night… And I’m working on only about 4.5 hours sleep, so if this post is a little incoherent, blame it on the Moon. 🙂 It…
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Hot spot weekend. Red Moon Tonight
It was a fantastic weekend of sunny weather. I’m probably not the only one that got a bit of colour on my cheeks from it. We also competed for hotspot in BC. Our official high of 18.6°C on Saturday lost out to Cultis Lake but on Sunday we reached 20.9°C which was a new short…
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Here comes the sun!
It’s going to be a fantastic weekend. This morning’s clouds and light rain will clear this afternoon and we should get up to around 15° C. On Saturday and Sunday though it’s going to be really great. So great in fact that Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement alerting us to just how…