Tag: Fog
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Hottest days of the year coming – including on the North Island!
I’ve been preparing for a backpacking trip up to Cape Scott on Monday. So this post will be as much about Port Alberni and the South Island as it will about the North Island so my family can imagine when my son and I are soaked with rain or basking on a beach in 19°C…
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Inversion brings foggy days ahead. Air Quality advisories in Duncan and Metro Vancouver
Foggy Days Don’t expect to see too many mountain vistas if you are in a Valley on Vancouver Island or on the Lower Mainland. Don’t forget to enter the First Snow Guess Contest! Only a week to go! The long period of high pressure has now transitioned into a familiar inversion pattern with warm temperatures…
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Fog continues until Wednesday
We are in a pretty set pattern of inversion that continues to deliver fog for most of the Valley and bright clear skies above and outside the Valley. All thanks to the Jetstream flying far to the north of us. Expect this pattern to continue until Wednesday when the jet straightens out again and will…
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Last Total Lunar Eclipse before 2021 is tonight! Will the clouds clear!?
Tonight is the full moon. It is the first full moon of 2019. And it will feature a full lunar eclipse! Here is the visibility and the times (from earthsky). The Eclipse is very widely visbile. All of the Americas will see it. Times below are Pacific time. Partial umbral eclipse begins: 7:34 p.m.Total lunar…
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Bad Cell service? Blame the fog. It’s going away on Wednesday.
The inversion and resulting fog will continue today. It was zero visibility on some parts of Highway 4 near Whiskey Creek this morning so please drive carefully. Below is what the UWash model looks like when it is like this. Notice the very heavy cloud in the northern Strait of Georgia that extends quite far…