Month: July 2019

  • Updated: Heavy Rainfall Warning issued for northern sections – East Vancouver.

    Updated: Heavy Rainfall Warning issued for northern sections – East Vancouver.

    Environment Canada has just issued a heavy rainfall warning for amounts up to 50mm for the area north of Nanoose Bay. Here is the quote: 3:45 PM PDT Wednesday 31 July 2019Rainfall warning in effect for:East Vancouver Island – Courtenay to Campbell RiverEast Vancouver Island – Nanoose Bay to Fanny BayRain, at times heavy, is…

  • Happy rain, Happy Rain gauge, happy Rain Stats

    Happy rain, Happy Rain gauge, happy Rain Stats

    Cleaned the Integrated Sensor Suite – Rain measurements are back online! It’s all happy! Now that the rain bucket is working again on the weather station I’ve spent most of the day (except for a rather wet trip to the dump!) working on renovating the rain-related data on the website. Here’s what the tippers looked…

  • Widespread rain coming Tuesday Night

    Widespread rain coming Tuesday Night

    The hour by hour forecast: Monday will be warm and cloudy but get ready for some real rainfall Tuesday evening. Showers will begin to creep onto the West Island, Tofino, Ucluelet, Bamfield and Port Renfrew before 5PM Tuesday. Rain showers will pick up in those same areas in the 5-8PM period. Showers also begin in…

  • Partly Cloudy and slight chance of rain. Fire Danger moderate but forests very dry.

    Partly Cloudy and slight chance of rain. Fire Danger moderate but forests very dry.

    Rain sticking to North End Don’t expect much in the way of precipitation for the next few days if you are south of Campbell River. While there are chances for rain on many days in the next seven, none are very significant. Here are the three day total rainfall forecasts, first, from 5PM Wednesday (yesterday)…

  • June 2019 Summary – Lightning, warm, dry, and a three way tie.

    June 2019 Summary – Lightning, warm, dry, and a three way tie.

    The Alberniweather and Alberni Valley Climate Summary for June 2019 Catching up on this month… this post was actually written January 1 2020 but is back-dated so it makes sense in the grand scheme of things. 🙂 This was a pretty active month with a couple new high temperatures for the airport as well as…