Year: 2022

  • Record Breaking start to October

    Record Breaking start to October

    It feels overly hot, because it is. If you felt like the first days of October got off to an unusually hot start, you’re right. We hit 28.0ºC and 29.3ºC on Saturday and Sunday respectively. That easily beat the Airport records for those days of 24.8ºC and 23.0ºC. Saturday will be a runner up to…

  • It rained! At least a little. Truth and Reconciliation Day weather looks good.

    It rained! At least a little. Truth and Reconciliation Day weather looks good.

    Finally Finally some measurable precipitation on the rain gauge!! Granted it’s only 1.3mm, but we’ll take every drop! Clouds will persist and showers should continue off and on through the rest of the day. It won’t be a big amount of moisture, but it’ll help. Major Hurricane Ian making landfall now The Satellite Imagery coming…

  • All Time Record beat Monday, but not today.

    All Time Record beat Monday, but not today.

    Squeaky All Time Record We easily beat our record high for the day yesterday! The Airport recorded an official high of 29.5ºC and Alberniweather got up to 29.1ºC. The previous record at the Airpot was 27.0ºC in 2006, but the big news is we set a new all time high for the day, just beating…

  • Will we actually get rain this time?

    Will we actually get rain this time?

    Hot Start It’s going to get up to 29ºC today, that’s hot for the end of September (don’t be surprised if we hit 30). What we really want to know how is when the switch will finally get flipped and we get into some fall stormy/rainy weather. It had looked like this week might be…

  • No rain yet. Warm Weekend. Frightening Fiona

    No rain yet. Warm Weekend. Frightening Fiona

    Where’s that moisture? It looks like the rain either hasn’t come yet or is going to miss us completely. A bummer. I was hopeful this morning when we had some strong winds that it would signal at least some moisture falling from the sky. The picture on Windy is looking pretty dry for the mid-Island…