Category: Fire
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Back to 30°C today – Procession for SLFD Firefighter around 5:30 – Extreme Fire Danger – Meteors
The clouds cleared overnight and the heat will move back in quickly today. The forecast yesterday was for temperatures to get up to 35°C Thursday but that has been cut back to “only” 30°C today and possibly 33°C Thursday. Temperatures should remain in the high twenties into the weekend with clouds and cooler temperatures returning…
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Rain continues Thursday – Easing off by the weekend – Australian fires claim more lives.
UPDATE: Highway 4 to Tofino CLOSED Wet Weather Continues It has been a very wet week. In fact, there hasn’t been more than a 24 hour gap in the rain (or melting snow) since January 16! Including some snow melt, my rain gauge has measured 216mm since then, and counting. It’ll probably be past 300mm…
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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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What we just saw might be what we see for months. Heavy rain, with dry stretches, thanks to the Blob.
Dry Wednesday through Friday We will get a break from today through Friday so lets look a little longer…. We have had a pretty soggy past few days punctuated by some very heavy periods of rain. In total if you head to the full almanac data pages you’ll see we received about 57mm of rain…
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Salmon Fest Forecast, Extreme Fire Danger, and Dorian targets Florida as scientists confirm strongest hurricanes are getting stronger.
Perfect fishing weather approaching! The fish are going to be feeling frisky this weekend as we have some cool weather and showers that will get them moving. Hold on tight to those lines! Friday night Fireworks dry, but cool. You might want to put on a sweatshirt tonight when you go down to Tree Landing…