Category: Fire
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Wildfire centre bans all fires larger than campfires starting at Noon
The BC Wildfire Service announced a ban on all Category 2 fires starting at noon Friday. See the image below to see their categories. This means anything larger than a campfire is restricted in the Coastal fire centre except the Fog Zone on the West Coast (purple below). This is the same type of ban as is…
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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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A rainy week, and an important request before the summer heat.
Welcome to Spring! And for those of you in SD70, Spring Break! Unfortunately, we have a slightly rainy week ahead of us but totals are modest. Between the mornings 5-5AM Monday/Tuesday, Tues/Wed, and Wed/Thurs the model shows 16mm, 4mm, and 16mm respectively. We should get a bit of a break Friday and then more showers Saturday. Please click to…
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UPDATE 9AM: Air Quality Advisory Issued – A week of clear and sunny skies brought to you in part by El Nino and Climate Change
UPDATED 9AM Air Quality Advisory Issued for next 3 days. AIR QUALITY ADVISORY AND OPEN BURNING RESTRICTIONS IN EFFECT FOR THE ALBERNI VALLEY, WITHIN 15 KM OF PORT ALBERNI CITY HALL (November 26, 2015 – Port Alberni, B.C.) The Ministry of Environment in collaboration with Island Health has issued an Air Quality Advisory for Port…