Category: General
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The rains have come – Atmospheric River Thursday and Friday?
It rained on Friday. It rained on Sunday. It rained this morning. It will rain tomorrow. and Wednesday. All these days did and will feature rain. Thankfully, it won’t be a downpour 24/7 like this time last year as we began our November deluge. But it will definitely rain. By Wednesday we could see up…
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The Rain has Come!
Light, but it’s there. After 20 long, dry, and hot days in October, we are finally receiving our first rain shower of the month. This is the first time Alberniweather has had measurable rain since September 28 (1.3mm) and only the 6th time since July 15th. This station hasn’t measured more than 5 millimetres of…
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ShakeOut on Thursday!? First Fall Storm Friday?
Participate in the Great BC Shakeout Every year for the past many years, on the 3rd Thursday of October, there has been a practice earthquake drill across BC, the Great BC Shakeout! It’s a big deal! And it’s also really important, and useful to do. Whether you are at home or in an office. What…
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Our home is on fire
We have to reduce CO2 emissions I took these photos on the way to work this morning. The smoke is from fires in Washington State. Air Quality is poor across the Island including Port Alberni. I try to keep politics to a bare minimum here but it has to be said. We all just voted…
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Shocking heat and drought continues
Update 2PM – Multiple small fires In the past hour the Port Alberni Fire Department and BC Wildfire has been on the scene of two small fires. One at McCoy Lake is causing poor air quality. Please folks, be extremely careful out there. Smoking, hot exhaust and other heat sources will cause a fire. (click…