Category: Climate Change
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Variable week – Thursday Thunder – The Arctic Breaks up Fast and Early
It will be mostly cloudy and dry this week but it should stay pleasantly warm. We should get some sunny breaks this afternoon and then back to cloud Wednesday. On Thursday things get a little more interesting as there appears to be a chance for some thunderstorms in the afternoon. The first indication is afternoon…
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April 2016 Summary – Way above average temps. Stretch of Hot weather has fire danger picking up.
Well above average April in temperature. Much lower than normal precipitation. A dry, warm outlook. It is going to be a hot dry weekend and that is just a continuation of what we saw in April. We set a whole raft of new short term temperature records (seven) at the Airport but did not quite manage to set…
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Heat returning for weekend. Weather data of Devastating Ft Mac Fire
First: Please donate to the Red Cross to help the thousands of refugees that are now in need. It really is like a war zone. For our area, a brief bit of rain yesterday actually delivered slightly more than UWash forecasted, but still just 3mm over the past 24 hours. We will now shift back to a dry…
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Climate Change and International Workers Memorial Day
Here is a topic that spans all three of my public service ‘hats’ of weather guy, union workplace health and safety guy, and municipal councillor guy. April 28 is the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job or globally, International Workers Memorial Day. Being an industry town in a traditionally primary…
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March 2016 Summary – Plenty of Records but extremes moderate as El Niño wanes.
Above Average March in temperature. Normal to above normal for precipitation. A moderating outlook. The month was kind of bookended with records. We had an all time record high temperature set on February 25th and then we got a strong rainfall event that generated a flurry of short-term records starting March 1. At the end of the…