Category: General

  • All Time Record beat Monday, but not today.

    All Time Record beat Monday, but not today.

    Squeaky All Time Record We easily beat our record high for the day yesterday! The Airport recorded an official high of 29.5ºC and Alberniweather got up to 29.1ºC. The previous record at the Airpot was 27.0ºC in 2006, but the big news is we set a new all time high for the day, just beating…

  • Will we actually get rain this time?

    Will we actually get rain this time?

    Hot Start It’s going to get up to 29ºC today, that’s hot for the end of September (don’t be surprised if we hit 30). What we really want to know how is when the switch will finally get flipped and we get into some fall stormy/rainy weather. It had looked like this week might be…

  • No rain yet. Warm Weekend. Frightening Fiona

    No rain yet. Warm Weekend. Frightening Fiona

    Where’s that moisture? It looks like the rain either hasn’t come yet or is going to miss us completely. A bummer. I was hopeful this morning when we had some strong winds that it would signal at least some moisture falling from the sky. The picture on Windy is looking pretty dry for the mid-Island…

  • First Day of Fall! – Back from a long vacation

    First Day of Fall! – Back from a long vacation

    Welcome back! It’s been too long since I last posted. We had a wonderful summer, and that includes me and my family getting out of town and heading all the way across Canada to PEI and back! It was super fun. We saw, and experienced, some crazy weather, and just generally saw a lot of…

  • Rare May Storm incoming

    Rare May Storm incoming

    Batten down the hatches It’s pretty unusual to have this kind of storm in May at all, let alone the week before the Long Weekend. But here we are. Get ready for what could be a significant wind, and rain event all across Vancouver Island. Here it comes This is the just released forecast for…