Month: October 2016
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September 2016 Summary and Outlook – Happy Thanksgiving!
Hot August fades into warm and wet September. Happy Thanksgiving! September sent us back into what felt like a pretty cool pattern. We actually set two short term low temperature records at the Airport at the end of the month and one short term rainfall record at the beginning of the month. Neither record beat…
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Happy Thanksgiving! Rain Saturday then Sun!
Quick update! It’s going to rain some more Saturday! Probably 30mm. Mostly in the morning. It should clear up by evening and be mostly nice for the rest of the weekend! Yay! We got a high gust last night unexpectedly at 3AM of 64kph. Have a great weekend.
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Updated 6AM Friday – Gusty morning – First Fall Storm coming overnight Thursday
6AM Friday Looks like the wind decided to come at us on the back side of the storm instead of the front. Stay safe out there. This too shall pass by late morning. 🙂 Top gust 64kph. At 3am Updated 9:30AM – Final Look An updated look from this morning’s model runs. A wind warning remains…
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Big shift in Models means possible storm coming Thursday
We have had a bit of a shift in the forecast! On Monday I said that after a few showers Tuesday and Wednesday (those will be finishing up before noon today) we should be mostly dry until the weekend as a system will be hitting mostly the north island on early Friday morning like this: And that…
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We may not ride through Typhoons, but we still feel them.
We have many things to be thankful for here in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, and one of them is not having to worry much about things like Major Hurricanes. As beautiful as they are to watch from above (check out Matthew’s eye “breathing”) they are ridiculously powerful. Interesting to watch the eye of Matthew…