Category: Climate Change
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Update on records and high fire danger
An update on where we’ve been and where we are headed this week in terms of records. The hottest official temperature for May is 34.1C set on May 28th, 1983. We won’t be getting anywhere near that Monthly record, at least I hope not, but it’s worth noting. We are into 4 or 5 days…
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No, this isn’t normal
A full week of mid to high twenties peaking twice in the 30s at the beginning of May? No, it is not expected or normal. Why is it happening? The Jetstream: It has bent itself into a rather crazy shape and is headed far to the North allowing warm air in.. And its a bit…
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Damp weekend ahead – Dry April.
This certainly looks like the greyest weekend we’ve had on tap for a while. That’s probably not a bad thing. It has been a fairly dry few weeks. I know my yard and newly popped open flowers, bushes, grapes, rhubarb – even the strawberries have flowers already – they could all use a good drink.…
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Another decent day – Dry long forecast
Was yesterday beautiful or what!? We reached a balmy 18C and stations all over Vancouver Island flirted with the hot spot for BC for the day. No records broken, it was just a very nice, normal spring day. Today should be pretty good. The clouds should not thicken and threat of rain won’t come until…
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March 31 record set
I just ran through the records for March 31st, and it looks like our warmest since at least 1930 and a new official record. The highest temps for an official Port Alberni station were: 22.2C in 1930 at the original Port Alberni city hall station; 18.9C at the ‘A’ station on the river in 1992;…