Year: 2019
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Fire crisis deepens in Australia as all communications to be cut in huge area south of Sydney.
The Bushfires raging across Australia are just too much not to mention on this blog. This page from the Australia Broadcasting Corporation has good live updates including this shocking one just released in the past few minutes. This is absolutely all communications, including to hospitals. The area is about 300km long along the east coast…
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Big Rain on West Coast – Snow Thursday – Website tweaks – See you next decade!
Probably the last post of 2019 Happy New Year! Hope everyone has a fun and safe New Year’s celebration tomorrow. Here’s what to expect from the weather. Big rain West Coast – less elsewhere. Showers will start on the west coast monday morning and continue into Tuesday. There is a rainfall warning issued already. For…
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Heavy rain might mix snow today. Heavy snow on high terrain.
A fairly intense system should enter and exit the picture today. Starting around 1PM Showers should begin around 1PM and for most of the rest of the central Island by 4PM. Where you see the heaviest rainfall, the blue areas below, those will be the places most likely to see snow mix in as the…
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Christmas Eve showers, small earthquake, and Christmas lights tour.
Now Four Earthquakes in past 12 hours. A fairly unusual cluster of earthquakes now developing off of the coast. There have been 4 fairy large earthquakes, around 5-6M in just the past 12 hours. Are they pre-shocks to a larger earthquake or just a larger-than-usual cluster in what is always an active place. John Cassidy…
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Blustery weekend before a chance of Christmas morning flurries.
We started the day on Friday in between systems. A reminder that my station is not measuring rainfall at the moment. You can get measurements from Alberni Elementary which saw over 30mm yesterday alone. Port Alberni was spared the wind that hit the east and south parts of the Island. Many areas were without power…