Category: Astronomy
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Lunar Eclipse Tonight 9PM Pacific – It might be clear!
Moon will be in partial eclipse when it rises Feature image from the CBC. Tonight is the Lunar Eclipse! Believe it or not, this morning’s rain should pass through by this afternoon. We might even see some sun and cleaning skies and that might mean a view of the moon entering the Earth’s shadow as…
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Aurora Borealis over Port Alberni Thanksgiving Monday night.
I saw this tweet from Seattle Weather Service So I ran outside, and then up on our roof, and there it was! Over the lookout and shining above a portion over the Beaufort over Beaver Creek. You could actually see a cloud in front or I am sure it would have been brighter. Hopefully it…
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December 2020 – A Wet Month ending the year warm.
A very rainy, but not quite record rainy, month.
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Clear skies coming – Great Conjuction of Jupiter and Saturn – Cold until Christmas
Crazy Monday morning It was quite the morning of weather as we had another intense rain event followed by snow around 9AM in Port Alberni. There was a bunch more on the eastern side of the Island and on the mountains. Some folks might just get up to that 20cm before it is finished this…
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ALERT! Aurora may be visible tonight, fog willing (or avoiding!)
The Sun is coming for us. The folks over at www.spaceweather.com are expecting a G3 class magnetic storm to erupt around the Earth as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) ejected from the sun yesterday is headed our way. This could produce aurora visible as far south as Oregon! So that means us too! Below is…