Category: Fire
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Possibly record rain hits Tofino. Labour Day looks OK. Campfire ban may be lifted soon.
It may have been a record setting day on Tuesday in Tofino. Port Alberni only had a little bit of rain but the West Coast got hammered with 60mm falling at Ucluelet Secondary School and over 100mm falling at Wickinninish Community School in Tofino! Environment Canada has not published data from their Tofino (A) station for yesterday…
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Thunderstorm causes fire, heavy downpours. Return of Heat Tuesday
(Headline Photo by Rob Frolic) We got a reprieve from the heat on Sunday but the cool temperatures also brought some afternoon thunderstorms. And extremely heavy rains. Particularly in the central Island area. This caused heavy downpours that likely contributed to two simultaneous crashes on Highway 4 that affected the road for hours. My…
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POLL! 🙂 How Hot will it get?
https://twitter.com/alberniweather/status/766376158803873792 Well, if it’s going to be stupid hot then we might as well have some fun with it. So here’s a poll! [poll id=”2″] Pick the hottest you think it will get at Alberniweather between Thursday and Sunday. Click through to see the predictions from a number of places. It’s going to be a beautiful…
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EC issues Special Weather Statement for Heat. Fire forecast for ‘active’ conditions.
Update: Campfire Ban in Effect including in City of Port Alberni as of Wednesday 17th Noon according to multiple sources. (I will post a link to a Forest Service news page once I find one.) Here is the statement from the Port Alberni Fire Department Facebook page. CAMPFIRES PROHIBITED WITHIN THE CITY OF PORT ALBERNI…
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Heat continues, and intensifies through week. Fire Danger increases.
While we haven’t broken any records and likely won’t in the next week, it is going to feel pretty consistently hot and might even hotter as a ridge of high pressure locks in and intensifies. We may break records on Thursday and Friday. You can see this process in the UWash jetstream forecast. Here are the…