Tag: wind

  • UPDATED – Back Online – Anemometer – Wind Values Offline

    UPDATED – Back Online – Anemometer – Wind Values Offline

    They are back – Thanks for your patience. The wind values came back on their own a couple hours later. I may still go up and check on the casing for the transmitter. Might change the battery just to be sure. Not sure what caused the temporary outage. Wind values unavailable/erroneous until further notice. Woke…

  • Windy – Snowy – Saturday and Weekend

    Windy – Snowy – Saturday and Weekend

    Everybody Gets Some This Time The threat of strait-effect snow seems to have finally passed, but now it’s time for a more traditional snow system to makes it way to Vancouver Island! Starts overnight Friday Starting around 1AM Saturday morning, we can expect to see flurries moving down the Island with light winds. Snowy Saturday…

  • Environment Canada wins – Drive Safely on the East Island

    Environment Canada wins – Drive Safely on the East Island

    Update: Snowfall Warning Issued for Nanaimo/East Island Strait-Effect Snow is occurring. EC refers to it as “snow streamers off the Strait of Georgia”! 5-15cm is possible especially away a little further inland (Coombs, Errington, Jingle Pot, etc) https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?bc46 Treacherous Highway 19 and parts of Highway 4 A quick post to say be careful out there!…

  • One more snowy blast? Not seeing it…

    One more snowy blast? Not seeing it…

    Do you? Perhaps the model at UWash is totally out to lunch and wrong but it sure doesn’t see snow or even any precipitation at all after Tuesday. It has most of the moisture leaving the Island by 7PM tonight. There is a small pocket that appears in the very early hours of Thursday morning…

  • Rain collector unclogged – just in time for – snow?

    Rain collector unclogged – just in time for – snow?

    A seedy situation Once the rain finally stopped last weekend, I ventured into the yard to get the ladder and get up on the side of the shed to inspect the rain collector. And there it was… full to the brim with water. Obviously it can’t measure much water if no water is flowing through…