Category: Air Quality
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Smoke to continue through Tuesday. Clearing hopefully Wednesday. Sunny and warm Thursday.
Update 2:30PM see the graphs on the front page. Update 10:15AM The latest information from NASA on smoke forecasts is not good. See animation below. We should still get a break, but short-lived. PM2.5 levels consistent, and bad. The sensors have been very consistent for the past 24hrs as this smoke stays put. It might…
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Updated 1:35PM – California and Oregon Smoke has moved in. Record heat yesterday.
Bad Air settles in overnight. A last update before midnight. It’s bad all over the Island. Downtown Victoria and Port Alberni are currently the worst though. Both at over 150ug/m3 1:35PM Smoke has moved up the Island The smoke has pushed north as the day has drawn on. There is no chance of us hitting…
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Possibly final day of 30ºC+ weather. More Smoke coming. Possible shower Monday. Summer Summaries Posted. School Starts!
Expect today to be the last hot day, possibly of the summer. Lots going on this morning but one notable thing to start the day is this might be our final clear sunny and hot day of the 2020 summer. Fitting that it has come on the first day back for most kids to school.…
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30 degree temperatures returning. Smoke from California invading. 3 new Island COVID19 Cases.
Heat returns for Long Weekend It isn’t always a sure thing that we get nice weather for the Labour Day weekend. I remember more than a few walks around the Festival grounds in the rain. However, this weekend will not be that! While there is no festival, you will still be able to walk around…
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September 1! Meteorological Fall begins. Heat continues. Brief shower Wednesday. Website updates. COVID 19 BC Numbers.
Welcome back! I took the month of August off from blogging here so I could concentrate on the backend of the website. I’ve upgraded most of the systems feeding data to the website as well as the website itself. I am still waiting on some new code from the software developers to fix some issues…