Category: Summaries

  • Extremely Dry October 2013 Recap

    It’s time for the October 2013 recap, dry as a skeleton’s bones edition. Monthly Timelapse: This October has been extremely dry. Only a handful of Octobers since records began in the Alberni Valley in 1894 have been drier than this one. Our normal amount of rain is around 200 mm. We received a paltry 25.6mm…

  • September 2013 Recap – What a Difference a Year makes.

    It’s time for the September 2013 recap, soggy lawn edition! Here is the Timelapse! This September started off not bad but the last half really soaked us. We had nice weather to start. We only got 1.6mm of rain through the first 14 days of September. Then things changed. We had a few rain storms…

  • August 2013 recap! Parksville Flash Flood?

    It’s time for the August 2013 recap, Salmon Festival and Labour Day weekend edition! Here is the Timelapse! This August might have felt a little cool and wet compared to July, and it was wet, but actually still warmer or near normal for both the 1970 and 1980 thirty year normals for both average and…

  • July 2013 Recap – SUN!

    It’s time for the July 2013 recap! It’s going to be a nice day… and there may be some clouds today and tomorrow, but I don’t expect much, if any, rain. We got a trace early this morning. Here is the Timelapse! This July was warmer than normal for average, high, and low temperatures, and…

  • June 2013 Recap – Warm nights, Normal rainfall.

    Updated July 3: I just reactivated the monthly webcam timelapses. So I will be adding them to the monthly summaries so not only can we see the stats, we can see the weather for the whole month too! This June was a little warmer than normal (high above normal minimums near normal maximums) but with…