Category: Summaries
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October 2016 Summary and Outlook – Most days of rain since 1963 but no rainfall records
It rained all but two days but otherwise surprisingly normal! October was both strange and boring. It was probably one of the darkest Octobers ever in Port Alberni and many other towns across Southern BC as we appear to have set a record for the most days of October with rain. It rained 29…
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September 2016 Summary and Outlook – Happy Thanksgiving!
Hot August fades into warm and wet September. Happy Thanksgiving! September sent us back into what felt like a pretty cool pattern. We actually set two short term low temperature records at the Airport at the end of the month and one short term rainfall record at the beginning of the month. Neither record beat…
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August 2016 Summary and Outlook – Hotter than Normal Again – Winter of the Pineapple Express?
Average July gives way to Hot August. La Niña fades, and will it be a Stormy, Hawaiian Winter? After a couple months in June and July that felt quite cool thanks to past years of very hot weather, August returned us to a where we expected to be, with hotter temperatures than historical norms and…
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July 2016 Summary – Kinda Ho-Hum but Fall and Winter might not be.
A very average July. Again compared to last year’s extreme heat and fire dangers, particularly in the early part of the month, this past July seemed quite dreary and cool in comparison. But the numbers tell a less pessimistic story. The temperatures were very close to average for the month and the amount of precipitation…
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June 2016 Summary – Decidedly cooler but still all time record heat. Warmer times on the way.
It felt a lot cooler, but it wasn’t cold, or wet. Compared to last June’s insane heat and last springs terrible drought, this past June might have felt positively frigid and soaked. However, the data shows that we were still slightly above normal for temperatures. We even set an all time record high temperature on the…