Year: 2017
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Signing off for Month of July – HAPPY CANADA DAY – and Exciting Views Coming!
See You Soon. This will be my final post on this blog until August as I and my family take a much needed break and vacation to see friends and family and amazing things. Next blog post will be on or after August 2. I may post a few updates on the facebook page or…
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A pleasant week after a fiery record hot weekend.
The fire on Cameron main is now listed as “Active” rather than “Out of Control” on the bcwildfire.ca website. We got a clean sweep for short term high temp records at the Airport on the weekend. Friday the 23rd at 29.1°C, Saturday at 33.4°C, and Sunday at 34.7°C all broke the previous records at the…
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Fire Breaks out at base of Mt. Arrowsmith near Port Alberni
Update 4:45PM Some new picture from Justin Fraser. He says they are working on containing it. No update on the bcwildfire site. We hit a high of 33.5°C at the Airport so far and 33.7°C at Alberniweather. Update 2:30PM I have not received any new information on the fire. The Air Quality has improved as…
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It’s summer, and here comes the possibly record heat!
Update Friday 11AM – Issued at 2017-06-23 17:52 UTC by Environment Canada: Special weather statement issued for: East Vancouver Island, B.C. (081300) Special weather statement continued for: Inland Vancouver Island, B.C. (081500) Current details: Hot weather is expected this weekend. A strong upper ridge of high pressure building over the province will result in a…
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May 2017 Summary – Getting back to normal… but some important predictions for coming months!
May 2017. Back to the grind. Happy Summer Solstice on this June 20th, the longest day of the year! 🙂 Here is the long awaited summary for May. Because the spring was kinda lousy a lot of us likely thought that May was just as bad for being abnormally dreary. But cheer up! Actually, it…