Tag: Summer

  • Back from the Cape and into the Boiler! Heat this week.

    Back from the Cape and into the Boiler! Heat this week.

    It has already been hot for the past week but it is about to get hotter. If you check out the weekly data page on the Almanac you can see our progression over the past seven days. Here is the temperature for that period: You can see we got to 33.6°C last Monday and then…

  • Better idea at where to find Comet Neowise

    Better idea at where to find Comet Neowise

    I managed to see the Comet last night (both with naked eye and a small telescope). It was really exciting! It’s pretty dim and I don’t have the stuff to be able to take a picture but here’s where I saw it. The arrow shows both the position and the direction of the tail on…

  • Very spotty showers – Mostly dry particularly after Friday.

    Very spotty showers – Mostly dry particularly after Friday.

    The forecast from Environment Canada seems a little more dramatic and pessimistic than it needs to be for Tuesday and Wednesday. There will be showers around the Island but as you can see below, only on the southern portions, and only very light. These are 24 hour accumulations for Tue-Wed and We’d-Thur 5AM-5AM. Canada Day…

  • Chance of Thunder Saturday but otherwise warm sunny and getting hotter. Water Restrictions July 1

    Chance of Thunder Saturday but otherwise warm sunny and getting hotter. Water Restrictions July 1

    Friday and Saturday will see clouds, possible thunder It was a beautiful day to head to the lake on Thursday. We went over there and there were so many people we actually decided to skip it and go another day. Instead we hung out in the yard and made homemade pizza and watched the hummingbirds…

  • Happy Summer Solstice!

    Happy Summer Solstice!

    The official moment of earths closest approach to the sun is this afternoon at 2:44PM (PDT). We should have a very pleasant first days of summer today and tomorrow. There might be some lingering showers this morning and we could see scattered thundershowers this afternoon. Sunday will be cloudy with sunny breaks and warm and…