Author: Alberniweather Blog (Chris)

  • Downtime tonight

    In a few minutes I will be rearranging the rats nest that is my basement where all the goodies that make this website tick reside. It’s going to take me an hour or so to get everything ripped apart and put back together, so please forgive the downtime. Weather Data, graphs, and Webcam will all…

  • Cold Weather around the world.

    Vancouver Island hasn’t been the only place that has received colder than normal temperatures and more snow than in the past few years. East of the Rockies… temperatures are in the deep freeze. It was -54 with the windchill in Edmonton.. and blizzrads raged across the prairies. Today, Eastern Canada is getting flash frozen by…

  • How Much Snow?

    It seems to be unanimous… we’re going to get some snow over the next few days. How Much? EC says 5-10cm tomorrow… will we get that? More? Less? All Weekend? Will there be school on Monday? Who knows! All we can do is wait for the white fluffies to start falling from the sky. Update:…

  • Oops! No Forecast!

    It looks like Environment Canada has updated their webpages! Nice update actually.. but that’s why there is no forecast at the bottom of this box like there should be this morning. I’ll have to revamp my grabber code to get the text forecast from a different source. It might take me a few days. In…

  • So is this a Cold Snap?

    I don’t really know what constitutes a “Cold Snap” in the official sense of the term. But I do know it’s been cold for quite a few days now! Great Winter weather. Has made for some beautiful sunsets and alpen glow on Mt. Arrowsmith! Here’s hoping the rains don’t come on Thursday or Sunday as…