Year: 2014
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Summer is coming early – Possible record heat?
It’s hard to think of a better forecast than what we have for this week… except perhaps if it included the weekend. 🙂 Monday: The cloud you see is just fog. Head up or over the hump and it’s crystal clear. This fog should burn off by 11AM. As you can see in the humidity…
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Wet all day, but drying out a little Saturday. Heat next week?
The forecast continues to be a wet one. Expect intermittent showers all day today, lightening a little tonight and then continuing all day Friday. Around 16mm is forecast between this morning and Saturday morning. More rain comes Saturday night and Sunday. It is starting to seem like a long time ago when we had that…
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No Tsunami threat from strong Earthquake.
We had a strong earthquake 6.6 (now downgraded from 6.7) in the waters near Vancouver Island 40km West Port Alice. There have also been two relatively strong aftershocks, 5.0 and 4.2. It has been widely felt but it doesn’t sound like any damage is being reported and there is no Tsunami Warning or Watch at…
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A new chapter… I’m going to run for Council
We interrupt this regularly scheduled weather broadcast for a brief announcement. I’m going to run for Councillor in Port Alberni in November. I love this town – my town – and have loved serving it in a small way through this website. I have great concerns for the future that I believe must be addressed…
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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…