Category: Climate Change
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March 2014 Summary – Spring brings rain, snow and possible El Niño
Rainfall recovers, brings snowpack to 50% normal. Warm mornings, cool afternoons Like February, March provided a little more relief from the historic drought of the fall and early winter. We received above normal rainfall and this allowed the snowpack to recover just a little bit more from its historic lows a month previous. However, compared…
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Human History Will Mark Climate as its greatest Victory
The IPCC just released its update on the effect of Climate Change on our planet. The results from increasing Greenhouse Gases are now irrefutably being felt every day. We can avoid the worst impacts if we act now. We have the systems and technology to address the issues but we must act quickly, and decisively.…
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Warm today then wet, virtually impossible heat in Australia, global action works.
It should be pretty nice today with some sun and some cloud. We are slated to get to around 12°C. Tomorrow afternoon we will get into some serious rain. It should start around noon and deliver 16mm by Wednesday. I’ll have more details tomorrow. Australian Heat Virtually Impossible with Human Influence The World Meteorological Organization…
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Dry? Wet? Warm? Cold? Roll the dice, it ain’t December anymore.
It has been a rough week for forecasters and the models they rely on. After the UW GFS got its big win on Saturday when the snow appeared as it had predicted, it then completely failed to capture the severity of the snow on Sunday and especially Monday. This week looks like it’s going to…
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January 2014 Summary Driest October-January Ever plus warm dry January does nothing for the snowpack
More Records Smashed… dry weather marches on (though relief may be coming) Port Alberni has easily smashed its previous records for driest October-January period. Though not historic like December, the month of January has continued the dry trend we have seen throughout this ‘rainy’ season. Officially we received between 30-40% of our normal rainfall and…