Category: Climate Change
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Fire crisis deepens in Australia as all communications to be cut in huge area south of Sydney.
The Bushfires raging across Australia are just too much not to mention on this blog. This page from the Australia Broadcasting Corporation has good live updates including this shocking one just released in the past few minutes. This is absolutely all communications, including to hospitals. The area is about 300km long along the east coast…
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November 2019 Summary – Much Warmer and Drier than normal.
The Alberniweather and Alberni Valley Climate Summary for November 2019 If this was the end of December, we would have had one of the driest years on record. Thankfully, we still have one month to go and we have rain in the forecast! That said, we didn’t quite receive 1/3rd of our normal rainfall for…
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Meandering jet stream delivers warmth to the Arctic, unusual storm to South Oregon, strong, cold easterlies to South Island.
A very strong low pressure ‘bombed’ off of the coast of Oregon and Northern California last night. This explains the very strong winds this morning. Check out the animation in this tweet. There have been power outages and impacts on BC Ferries. You can see the low on the UWash maps as well. It has…
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October 2019 Summary – A cold and relatively dry month sets two all time Port Alberni cold records.
The Alberniweather and Alberni Valley Climate Summary for October 2019 Daily and All Time Records Set Set at the Airport* since 1995 and compared to other stations** for “All Time” since 1900. Multiple cold temperature records were set this month at the Airport including two All Time records set on October 9th, 10th. One precipitation record was set. October 1…
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Sunny for days! That means it is time for a CONTEST! First Snow 2019!
The Question: When will we get measurable snow at Alberniweather? Entry Period Closed! Thanks everyone for entering! If you are a business that would like to donate a prize for closest guess let me know! A bunch of prizes have already been offered check out the businesses below! Enter your guesses before Nov 12 on the bottom…